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  <description>Practical insight on AI adoption in UK manufacturing from John Cook, founder of Waypoint North.</description>
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    <title>One Leadership Team, Nine Different Businesses: Why AI Readiness Has to Be Measured Function by Function</title>
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    <author>hello@waypointnorth.co.uk (John Cook)</author>
    <category>Leadership</category>
    <category>AI Readiness</category>
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    <description>Ask a managing director how ready the business is for AI and you get one answer. Ask the operations director and you often get a different business entirely. That gap is where AI programmes stall.</description>
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    <title>How to Build an AI Business Case Your Manufacturing Board Will Actually Back</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <author>hello@waypointnorth.co.uk (John Cook)</author>
    <category>Strategy</category>
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    <description>Most AI investment proposals fail not because the technology isn't sound, but because the business case doesn't speak the language of the people in the room. Here's the framework that works.</description>
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