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Board-level AI Strategy and Adoption at Scale by Kingfisher’s Chris Blatchford
This episode with Chris Blatchford, CTO at Kingfisher, quickly became a conversation about leadership mindset and AI technology. Kingfisher is best known through its brands such as B&Q and Screwfix.
Chris described an organisation that treats AI as a board-level capability. Foundations first, so teams can build safely and repeatedly rather than improvising. Kingfisher’s data lake, Nucleus, and its AI framework, Athena, sit underneath everything. That choice signals discipline and intent. AI becomes an operating model, not a sequence of use case pilots.
From there, the focus shifts to customer…
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