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11 practical AI workflows for small businesses
Problem-first navigation
What are you trying to do?
Start with the decision or problem. The method comes second.
Method library
Explore 46 practical methods
SWOT Analysis
Turn evidence about your organisation and its environment into a small set of strategic actions.
PESTLE Analysis
Scan six macro-environment forces and translate external change into strategic implications and monitoring actions.
Porter’s Five Forces
Assess how industry structure distributes value among rivals, buyers, suppliers, substitutes and potential entrants.
Ansoff Matrix
Compare four growth directions by asking whether products and markets are existing or new to the organisation.
BCG Matrix
Compare business units by market growth and relative market share to discuss portfolio balance and resource allocation.
Working Sessions
Working sessions that end with a decision
Choose a format by outcome, evidence, authority, time and uncertainty—then use an operational agenda, exercises and artifacts.
AI systems for small business
Improve one real workflow
Review, prototype, build and support reliable AI-assisted operations with clear human control.
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Fiction Lab
Explore strategy, leadership and organisational systems through speculative fiction—then test the ideas against real management tools and original cases.
Learn in a sequence that makes sense
Short lessons connect methods to the decisions they support. Choose a learning path to work through a connected sequence.
View all pathsStrategic Thinking Foundations
Distinguish external environment, industry structure, company position and growth options, then connect strategy to stakeholders and a governed measurement system.
Problem Solving Foundations
Separate symptoms from causes, build causal hypotheses and choose corrective actions.
Operational Excellence
Define process boundaries, see flow and constraints, design evidence-backed controls, calculate delivery dependencies and operate a governed pull system.
Guided practice
Apply the method to a realistic case
Move through evidence, constraints and a decision—not a quiz about abbreviations.
Trace invoice corrections to a new intake path
A shared-service team sees supplier invoice corrections rise after a new digital intake route launches. Leaders propose retraining all processors, while manual rework hides the channel pattern.
Explain why support backlog rebounds after overtime
A software support team repeatedly uses overtime when backlog rises. Backlog falls for two weeks, rebounds higher, and attrition rises three months later. Leaders plan another overtime campaign.
Diagnose adoption of an AI-assisted field-service workflow
A maintenance company has launched a mobile workflow that uses an AI assistant to propose inspection steps. Training and account activation are high, but correct use differs sharply by role, connectivity and exception type.