Insight · AO Live
Twenty conversations, no slides.
AO Live is a running argument about how utility transformation actually works — across systems, teams and contracts. Sessions and discussions, not a webinar funnel.
What it is
A running argument, in public, with our own positions on the table.
Every episode takes a position we are prepared to be wrong about. That is the whole format.
The archive
Seven threads, twenty episodes
Grouped by the argument rather than by date, because that is how they were actually built.
The deadline, and what it is really about
Why 2027 is an operating-model question rather than a migration one.
3 episodesWork order centricity
The argument the firm is built on: the order is the system of record, and everything downstream inherits whatever it is given.
3 episodesThe contractor gap
Where good plans stop matching what happens in the field, and what it costs before anyone notices.
2 episodesWhite space
The seams between systems, teams and contracts — the part nobody owns, and the part that decides the program.
4 episodesClean core, and what it is not
Moving custom code off the core does not make it governed.
2 episodesAI, in the order that actually works
Strategy before speed, and a defensible record before either.
1 episodeThe people, and the long view
Guests, leadership, and what the first six months taught us.
5 episodesKeep up with it
One newsletter, no cadence promises
New episodes, the occasional written piece, and nothing else. We would rather send you four things a year you read than twenty you do not.
If you want to be on one, write to us. We are always looking for guests.
Next step
Bring us the part that isn’t working
A short conversation about where your SAP, GIS and schedule data stop agreeing — and what it would take to fix it properly.