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Reading Time: 6 minutesYour guide to getting more from the world’s most talked-about AI assistant ChatGPT Introduction This A–Z guide highlights 26 top features of ChatGPT, explained in plain English. ChatGPT has quickly gone from curiosity to everyday tool — helping people write, analyse, code, and create at speed. But with so many [...]

A to Z of ChatGPT Top Features

August 19, 2025 in Artificial Intelligence / Technology tagged AI / Artificial Intelligence / technology by markconwayuk

Reading Time: 6 minutesYour Guide to AI Concepts, Capabilities, and Practical Uses Introduction Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept — it’s here, shaping how we work, live, and make decisions.But with the jargon, hype, and complexity, it can be hard to separate the essentials from the noise. This A–Z guide gives [...]

A to Z of Artificial Intelligence

August 15, 2025 in Artificial Intelligence / Business / Technology tagged AI / Artificial Intelligence / Business by markconwayuk

Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes, the best ideas don’t arrive during office hours. They sneak up on you late at night, when the world quietens down, the emails stop pinging, and your brain finally gets the space to roam. That’s exactly where I found myself recently — staring down a problem, circling an idea, [...]

Burning the Midnight Oil with AI: A New Kind of ...

August 12, 2025 in Artificial Intelligence / Technology tagged AI / Artificial Intelligence / Brainstorming / Strategy by markconwayuk

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Setup: A Real Business. A Real Brief. A Fake Partner. Let’s skip the metaphor for a moment. I’m not writing this blog because I had a quirky interaction with Artificial Intelligence.I’m writing it because I’ve just wasted days — literal, expensive days — trying to get something done for [...]

AI – You Can Teach a New Dog Old Tricks

August 7, 2025 in Technology tagged AI / Artificial Intelligence by markconwayuk

Milestones, Inch Pebbles, Project Management — Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s fair to say that I’ve been involved in my fair share of projects during my career. Some have been market changing product launches or operational transformations and some have been must do, dull, but important projects. Others have been misguided, bonkers and failed projects. I’ve learnt from each and [...]

Effective Projects – Inch Pebbles, Milestones and Tombstones

January 29, 2018 in Business / Leadership / Project Management / Teams tagged Delivery / Project Management / Projects by markconwayuk

A to Z Overcoming Failure, Oak Consult, Mark Conway — Reading Time: 6 minutesIn this A to Z of Overcoming Failure, we’ll look at 26 inspirational quotes from some of the biggest ‘failures’ on how to overcome failure and set-backs. Failure in anything is tough. Life throws failure at us from an early age – learning to walk, potty training, making friends, reading [...]

A to Z of Overcoming Failure

August 28, 2015 in People / Personal Development tagged Failure / Mistakes by markconwayuk

Follow the Leader, Oak Consult — Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen I was a child we used to play a game whereby someone was picked to be the leader and they had to run around and the others had to mimic their actions, movements and follow their path, the more complex, the better. Those that didn’t follow, deviated from the ‘route’ [...]

Follow the Leader

February 9, 2015 in Business / Leadership / People / Personal Development tagged Leader / leadership qualities / Leadership Style by markconwayuk

Christmas Future, Business, Technology, Leadership — Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the third and last in the series of Think Oak’s Christmas blog posts – The Post of Christmas Future, let’s take a look at the next 15 years in Technology, Business and Leadership and see how they might have changed by 2030. (In case you missed Part 1 and Part [...]

The Post of Christmas Future

December 30, 2014 in Business / Leadership / Social Media / Teams / Technology tagged 3D Printing / Artificial Intelligence / Automated Vehicles / Crowdfunding / Robotics by markconwayuk

Post of Christmas Present — Reading Time: 17 minutesIn Part 2 of Think Oak’s Christmas blog posts – The Post of Christmas Present, let’s take a look at the current state of Business, Leadership and Technology. If you missed Part 1 – Click here. The Post of Christmas Present “It was the best of times, it was the worst of [...]

The Post of Christmas Present

December 24, 2014 in Business / Leadership / Technology tagged Customer Experience / Leadership / technology / Values by markconwayuk

Post of Christmas Past — Reading Time: 14 minutes10 Seismic Shifts in Business & Technology and their impact on Leadership I’ve always found that the run up to Christmas has always been a time of reflection and planning for the future. In this first of a three-part blog – The Post of Christmas Past (and no prizes for guessing [...]

The Post of Christmas Past

December 22, 2014 in Business / Leadership / Technology tagged Globalisation / internet / Leadership / Social Networks / technology by markconwayuk