Work/Flow — thinking from Ironbark
Perspectives on strategy, transformation, AI enablement, and the future of work, written on Work/Flow, the Ironbark Substack.
For any business owner - small, medium, scaled - cash flow is critical. No genius idea in that. And what’s the surest way to get cash flowing - getting paid, of course. Which brings me to the problem I hear accounts f…
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An uncomplicated guide to finding your first useful AI opportunity, setting up ChatGPT with the right context, and turning experimentation into something genuinely valuable.
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Why human-centric AI approach should also focus on giving us our headspace back
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Because with great AI-enablement comes greater accountability!
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My thoughts on how ROI can be connected to the P&L to justify investment.
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AI leading to organisation restructuring and job losses is widely reported. And that got me thinking, how are these decisions being made? Sure, a genuine AI productivity gain may lead to some structural workforce chan…
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Start managing with the right framework, governance and know when to press the kill switch.
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A practical framework to design your human-AI workforce and redirect your team's potential.
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A simple guide on how to brief your LLM for recurring workflows.
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Prompt engineering? So early 2026! History. Now its all about context engineering - give your AI LLM enough details about the world in which it will operate for it to do the task efficiently and accurately (and those…
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A practical guide on how to keep momentum in your search for the next role.
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Pretty sure that if you’ve been hands on with AI, you would have entered the prompt: Make it sharper; Less generic, Keep the first para but rewrite everything else …And sometimes it takes 20 prompts and the output sti…
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Sharing some hot tips on how to reinvest time saved with AI to compound your skills and grow your career.
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The real breakthrough is affordable access and I learnt that as a management trainee in 2009.
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I have a confession to make. I cheat on my AI tools. Regularly. And without remorse. Because I don’t believe there is one universally “best” AI model for everything. Let’s explore. Just as I wouldn’t ask one colleague…
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Unpacking the mental impact of AI, all day, every day and tips for managing the burden.
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Well, well, well…What do we have here? Me again, back with a slightly smug, slightly evangelical update on the cool things I managed to do with AI in the last 72 hours. The first win: I used AI for payroll workflow su…
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Navigating redundancies and five simple advice to get you going. You got this!
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But only if helpful. In this edition I explore why we need to breakup from "AI is the Strategy" and shift to "AI is the enabler of Strategy". Lets dive in...
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Sounds ludicrous, right? It's the same when we lack task-model fit in AI. In this edition, we explore intentional AI use at Work, and focus on how we invest our time in Flow. Welcome to Work/Flow.
Read articleA conversation is a good place to start
Our first conversation explores your challenge, your priorities and whether we’re a good fit to work together.
