Innovation in the Sky’s Blind Spot

by Tamer Badawy | Mar 6, 2026 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

Most breakthroughs don’t come from inventing something brand new. They come from connecting existing technologies to a problem everyone else ignored. I recently met with Andi Zaugg, CEO and co-founder of Levitate Aerospace. What really impressed me wasn’t...

Digital Minimalism for Enterprises (3/3): Building a Stop-Doing Operating Model

by Tamer Badawy | Feb 27, 2026 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

Most enterprises keep detailed backlogs of things that need to be built. New features. New integrations. New AI pilots. New dashboards. New automation layers. There are prioritization frameworks, roadmaps, sprint cycles, and investment committees, all of which are...

Digital Minimalism for Enterprises (2/3): Meeting Inflation Is an Architectural Problem

by Tamer Badawy | Feb 20, 2026 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

Most companies see meeting overload as a problem with behavior. People need to be more disciplined. Managers need clearer plans. Teams need fewer places to meet. From the perspective of IT leadership, this diagnosis is not complete. Meeting inflation is rarely a...

Digital Minimalism for Enterprises (1/3): Why Enterprises Must Stop Adding Tools

by Tamer Badawy | Feb 13, 2026 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

Every big transformation starts with good intentions. But when progress turns into accumulation, digital transformation quietly becomes digital clutter. A new platform for working together promises to make it easy to work together. A new analytics dashboard says it...

Confessions of a Head of IT: What I Wish Every CEO Knew About AI Projects

by Tamer Badawy | Jan 9, 2026 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

According to the statistics, artificial intelligence has already won. McKinsey, Stanford, and OpenAI say that more companies are using AI, and workers praise its usefulness. From an external perspective, it appears that the task is complete. According to the most...

Europe’s Bold AI Gamble: Can a Sovereign, Ethical Model Compete with the U.S. and China?

by Tamer Badawy | Jul 16, 2025 | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy

Switzerland announced plans this week for a publicly developed large language model. The project is led by EPFL, ETH Zürich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and runs on the Alps supercomputer using a dataset spanning more than 1,500 languages. It...