The AI Adoption Chasm

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Upload your CV. Now type your name, address, employment history, education and qualifications into the text boxes below.

The company already has that information, but its recruitment system can’t reliably map your document onto the structure its process requires. So the applicant becomes the integration layer. You read your own CV, reconcile terminology, reformat dates and fit your experience into categories the vendor chose. The form was digitised, not removed.

Most enterprise AI adoption stalls at the same point.

Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management: free in E5, but not free to run

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I get this question in almost every Modern Workplace engagement, usually about twenty minutes after we agree that standing local admin rights have to go: “Don’t we already have something for that in our Microsoft licence?” For years the honest answer was “almost — it’s an add-on.” From July 2026, the answer changes, and it’s worth a blog post, because the gap between Microsoft’s Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) and the established specialist tools is smaller than those vendors will tell you — and larger than Microsoft’s pre-sales decks suggest.

Modern Workplace on Phillip Büchler

The AI Adoption Chasm

Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management: free in E5, but not free to run