Martin Daffner

About

The practitioner behind the writing

I write about artificial intelligence because I work with it every day — not as a technologist, but as someone who sits with operations leaders, teaches MBA students, and watches how the gap between what AI can do and what organizations actually change remains stubbornly wide.

My interest is less in the models and more in the humans around them — the managers who have to redesign their functions, the workers whose routines are being restructured, the leaders who have to make decisions with imperfect information about a technology that is still becoming what it will be.

I try to write the way I would want to be taught: seriously, without pretension, and with the assumption that the reader is intelligent and time-pressed and deserves to be given something worth their attention.

Consultancy
InnoBrix
Founder & Managing Director · Hong Kong
Faculty
Duke Fuqua School of Business
Innovation, Strategy, Business Communications & AI in Business
Faculty
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Innovation & Entrepreneurship · Hong Kong

Topics

Operations & AI

How agentic AI changes the structure of work in bricks-and-mortar businesses — retail, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution — and why the people closest to the work must own the workflow design.

The Choice to Flourish

What we do with the time and cognitive leverage AI returns to us — at work, at home, and in how we structure a life worth living.

Strategy & Governance

How organizations need to rethink accountability, ownership, and the leadership assignment itself when the agents in their workflows are not human.

Learning Design & AI in Education

How AI is reshaping the classroom, the curriculum, and what it means to learn and teach effectively in an age of intelligent systems.