Hartmut Hübner in a collaborative AI working session

AI strategy · Innovation · Business models · Decisions

Turning AI into working systems.

I help leadership teams use AI to make better decisions, develop new business models, and turn innovation into trusted systems for daily work - especially where sovereignty, accountability, and human judgement matter.

Hartmut Hübner, PhD · Fractional AI Leader

Open innovation in practice

From AI ambition to adoption through clear decisions, governed experiments, and recurring work.

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First page of Open strategy and AI: A new actor in the strategy process? by Julia Hautz, Christian Stadler and Richard Whittington

Strategy & Decisions

When AI joins strategy, who gets heard?

AI can help an SME gather more perspectives on a strategic question. The harder design choice is whose input survives the summary and who decides what happens next.

2 October 2026Read
Decision Ground: A workspace for business decisions

AI & Decisions

A business decision needs a memory

Why I am developing Decision Ground: a place to connect research, assumptions, human judgement and what a team learns afterwards.

30 September 2026Read
Hartmut Hübner with fellow panellists at the pro-manchester panel at the University of Salford on 24 September 2026

AI & Innovation

How AI communities learn from each other: Manchester and Liechtenstein

What two conversations in Manchester reveal about co-production, regional collaboration and the practical AI questions facing SMEs.

26 September 2026Read

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