Femke Cornelissen

There’s a sentence I hear a lot in conversations about AI and Copilot. “Don’t worry, your data stays in Europe.” It sounds reassuring. Safe. Almost like something you can check off and move on. But the reality is more nuanced, and honestly, that nuance is exactly where leadership begins. At the core of this conversation … Meer lezen over AI Coworkers are here. Europe isn’t ready for the conversation

There are shifts in technology you can explain, and then there are shifts you experience before you have the words for them. This was the second kind. It started, like many things do, with something simple. I needed to build a presentation, not just slides, but a story, a narrative that flows, lands, convinces, the … Meer lezen over Halleluja moment with Copilot Cowork

Microsoft just launched Copilot Cowork a feature that lets Copilot execute multi-step tasks across your entire M365 environment. I tested it this week. Here’s what I learned about the shift from prompting to delegating. The prompting era is evolving For the past two years, the AI conversation in most organizations has been about prompting. How … Meer lezen over Stop Prompting, Start Delegating: 4 Lessons from Testing Copilot Cowork

I’ve been thinking about why so many Copilot rollouts feel stuck. Not the technology. That part works. The licenses are active. The features are live. People are using it. The dashboard says 85%. And yet. Nothing has really changed. Teams still run the same meetings. Documents still take the same amount of time. Decisions still … Meer lezen over The Missing Middle of AI Transformation

I’ve been in enough rooms to notice a pattern. Someone puts up a slide. “We’re becoming a Frontier Firm.” Heads nod. Nobody asks what it means. I get it. The term sounds serious. It has weight. But weight without direction is just pressure. And a lot of organizations are feeling the pressure right now without … Meer lezen over Everyone is talking about Frontier Firms. Most people are getting it wrong.

For the past year most conversations about Microsoft Copilot have revolved around one company. OpenAI. Which is understandable. GPT models powered many of the first Copilot experiences people encountered inside Microsoft 365. Meeting summaries, document drafts, presentation generation, brainstorming sessions. For many organizations the mental model quickly became simple. Copilot equals OpenAI. But that mental … Meer lezen over Anthropic inside Microsoft Copilot: a quiet shift that will reshape enterprise AI

This is one of those things nobody tells you. And once you know it, you cannot unsee it. Most people turn on the transcript after the meeting has already started. Some people turn it on while simultaneously hissing at their kids to be quiet, frantically closing the kitchen door, and muting themselves just a little … Meer lezen over Start the transcript before the meeting starts

Visibility, Confidence and the Power of Sharing What You Know International Women’s Day is a moment to celebrate progress, but it is also a moment to reflect on something many professionals still struggle with: visibility. Across technology, AI, security and many other industries, there are countless women doing remarkable work. They lead projects, develop expertise, … Meer lezen over International Women’s Day

Let me say something that might be uncomfortable. The financial sector is one of the most data rich industries on the planet. Banks, insurers, pension funds, fintechs. Decades of transaction data, risk data, claims data. More structured information than almost any other industry. And yet, when I talk to leaders across financial services about their … Meer lezen over The financial sector does not have an AI problem. It has an ownership problem.

I stumbled upon a rumor that immediately made me pause. Not because it was loud or spectacular, but because it quietly hit something very personal. There are whispers that OpenAI, possibly together with Apple, is exploring a new way of interacting with AI. Not through another chat window or app, but through writing, speaking and … Meer lezen over Why a quiet OpenAI and Apple rumor made me rethink how my brain works