Nov 3, 2026 · AI-Native
As Everyone Uses AI, Companies Face the Risk of Losing Critical Skills
Bora Kaykayoğlu · Nov 3, 2026
Oct 28, 2026 · Problem Solving
What Is TRIZ in Engineering and How Is It Applied?
Bora Kaykayoğlu · Oct 28, 2026
Nov 7, 2026 · Creativity
AI-Powered TRIZ: Elevating Corporate Creativity
This article, an extended version of a study presented at the Paris TRIZ Conference, examines how professionals' creative thinking skills can be developed with AI-supported TRIZ integrated with creative thinking techniques.
Bora Kaykayoğlu and Prof. Dr. C. Ruhi Kaykayoğlu · Nov 7, 2026
Creativity · Nov 7, 2026 · 5 min
AI-Powered TRIZ: Elevating Corporate Creativity
This article, an extended version of a study presented at the Paris TRIZ Conference, examines how professionals' creative thinking skills can be developed with AI-supported TRIZ integrated with creative thinking techniques.
AI-Native · Nov 3, 2026 · 2 min
As Everyone Uses AI, Companies Face the Risk of Losing Critical Skills
Leaving too much of the thinking to AI can erode judgment, problem framing, and creativity within organizations. The research examines the warning signs and how work can be organized to preserve these skills.
Problem Solving · Oct 28, 2026 · 2 min
What Is TRIZ in Engineering and How Is It Applied?
TRIZ addresses engineering contradictions in which improving one property makes another worse. Drawing on principles used in similar problems, it seeks solutions that improve both properties together.
Problem Solving · Oct 24, 2026 · 2 min
What Does 8D and Root Cause Analysis Training Cover?
When the same error keeps recurring, its cause may not have been investigated thoroughly enough. 8D and root cause analysis define the steps in that investigation and how to verify the solution.
Creativity · Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min
Innovation Methodologies in R&D and Design Centers
For R&D and design centers to generate new ideas regularly and turn them into projects, finding and selecting ideas needs a place in everyday work.
AI-Native · Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min
What Is an AI-Native Company and How Does a Company Become AI-Native?
An AI-Native company redesigns its business processes, decision-making practices, and team capabilities with AI. The work runs from understanding team capabilities to achieving measurable results on a real business problem.
Creativity · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min
Technical Creativity 101 Part 1: What Is Technical Creativity?
Creative thinking can be developed through methods that help us look at a problem from different angles. Biomimicry, metaphorical thinking, and other techniques can help us move beyond familiar solutions at work.
Strategy · Oct 4, 2026 · 2 min
Strategic Idea Generation through Divergent and Convergent Thinking
Generating ideas means opening up options, while making decisions means narrowing them down. When both happen at once, suggestions can be dismissed before anyone understands them.
Creativity · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min
What Is Storytelling in Business? Why Has It Recently Become a Priority for Companies?
Data supports the reasoning behind a decision. A well-constructed narrative also shows what happened to produce that data, how the decision was made, and what changed afterward.
Problem Solving · Sep 27, 2026 · 2 min
Building a Problem-Solving Culture by Enhancing Creative and Innovative Thinking Skills in Companies
If the same problem comes up every month, we need to look at the solution alongside what the organization has learned from the problem and how it shares that knowledge.
Problem Solving · Sep 23, 2026 · 10 min
What Is TRIZ? How Does It Strengthen the Problem-Solving Process?
TRIZ approaches new problems by drawing on the ways past inventions found solutions. I look at how it identifies contradictions, examines systems, and selects suitable problem-solving tools.
Problem Solving · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 min
Looking at Complex Problems from a Different Angle
How we define a problem shapes the direction of our search for a solution. Combining systematic thinking with creativity helps us reframe the question and test our options.
AI-Native · Sep 12, 2026 · 2 min
The Human Role in AI Transformation
AI's contribution to work depends on the problem it is used for and how its output is evaluated. Developing human capabilities alongside technology matters if that contribution is to become part of everyday work.
Strategy · Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min
Connecting Learning with the Organization’s Future
Corporate academies can connect competency maps and learning journeys with real business problems. To see how development translates into work, they also need to define the behaviors to observe.
Strategy · Sep 6, 2026 · 2 min
New Questions for New Business Models
A new business model can emerge from presenting existing value in a different form. Tracking changing needs and testing options through small experiments helps assess these possibilities.
AI-Native · Aug 27, 2026 · 1 min
What Is an AI-Native Organization?
In an AI-Native organization, teams define problems, question AI outputs, and explain their decisions. How tools fit into the work is considered alongside the team's thinking skills and responsibilities.
AI-Native · Aug 24, 2026 · 2 min
How Do You Become an AI-Native Professional?
As Rıfat Özcan’s guest on Axis Network, Y. Bora Kaykayoğlu described how an AI-Native professional works. The conversation covered human capabilities, problem-solving methods, and the impact of AI agents on the business world.
AI-Native · Aug 19, 2026 · 1 min
What Is an AI-Native Family Business?
An AI-Native family business brings together the family’s accumulated knowledge, the next generation’s perspective, and professional management capabilities around a shared business need. AI is used to evaluate information and develop new options.
AI-Native · Aug 13, 2026 · 1 min
What Is an AI-Native University?
An AI-Native university considers teaching, research, and administrative operations alongside human capabilities. Verification and responsibility for decisions matter as much as where AI is used.
AI-Native · Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min
How Do You Build AI-Native Teams?
An AI-Native team is defined by how it redesigns work around outcomes, rather than the tools it uses. I explore the thinking strengths a team brings, how tasks are divided across its workflow, and how to track development through real cases.
AI-Native · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min
Transitioning from AI User to AI-Native Professional as We Enter 2027
As 2027 approaches, professionals need to understand their expertise, frame problems clearly, and maintain quality when working with AI. AI-Native work considers how tasks, responsibility for decisions, and learning fit together.
AI-Native · Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min
The Future of Human Capabilities in the AI Era
As access to information and first drafts becomes easier, understanding problems, distinguishing causes, and making decisions become more important. Organizations using AI also need to consider the risk of these capabilities eroding.
Strategy · Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min
An AI-Native Leadership Guide for Managers
AI-Native leadership requires deciding which organizational priority AI will serve and how success will be measured. Putting that direction into practice means considering team capabilities, human responsibility, and the results of applications together.
Problem Solving · Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min
A Guide to Identifying AI Use Cases for Your Organization
Choosing AI use cases requires clarity about what the organization wants to change. Considering strategic needs, workflow problems, and team capabilities together makes it easier to decide which applications deserve priority.
Strategy · Jul 23, 2026 · 1 min
An AI-Native Transformation Guide for Family Businesses
A long-term perspective, strong relationships, and industry knowledge accumulated across generations give family businesses a starting point for AI-Native transformation. How they use that experience depends on the generations' shared goals and how decision-making responsibilities are divided.
Strategy · Jul 16, 2026 · 5 min
GaaS vs SaaS: The Intrapreneur's New Journey
SaaS provides software for employees to use, while GaaS carries out a task within boundaries set by people. This distinction means intrapreneurs need to design how tasks are shared and where checks belong, alongside choosing tools.
AI-Native · Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min
How Do AI-Native Professionals Work?
AI-Native professionals work with an understanding of their own expertise and limits. They use AI for research and generating options while taking responsibility for evaluation, context, and the final decision.
Problem Solving · Jul 4, 2026 · 1 min
AI Speeds Up Problem Solving, but What About Problem Definition?
AI can quickly generate solutions to a well-defined problem and amplify a poorly framed one just as fast. Before moving to solutions, we need to distinguish symptoms, causes, and the outcome we want to change.
Strategy · Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min
Why Is Human Judgment Still Critical in AI-Assisted Decisions?
AI can scan data, find patterns, and compare possible outcomes. A decision involves more: the organization's purpose, values, relationships, risk appetite, and the impact on people all come into play.
Creativity · Jun 26, 2026 · 1 min
Does AI Increase Creativity, or Just Multiply the Options?
AI can generate hundreds of ideas in a short time. Creativity depends less on the number of options than on recognizing a meaningful need, making distant connections, choosing a strong direction, and turning an idea into a solution that creates value in the real world.
AI-Native · Jun 3, 2026 · 1 min
What Does AI-Native Work Mean in Engineering?
AI-Native work in engineering extends from understanding requirements to comparing alternative architectures and verification. The options AI generates are assessed through engineering judgment.
Problem Solving · Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min
Can You Get the Right Answer from AI Without Asking the Right Question of the Data?
To evaluate an analysis, we need to know which decision the data supports, which period it represents, and what it measures and how. AI can speed up analysis, but people remain responsible for questioning the limits of both the question and the data.
Problem Solving · May 30, 2026 · 1 min
Why Is Security Judgment More Critical in the Age of AI?
AI is speeding up both attacks and defenses. Employees who access data, produce content, make decisions, or set up automation also need to recognize unusual requests and attempts to exceed authority, and know when to stop.
Problem Solving · May 29, 2026 · 1 min
How Do Human Capabilities Affect the Quality of AI Use?
Results from the same model can vary with the domain knowledge and thinking habits of the person using it. Evaluating AI training requires looking beyond frequency of use to problem definition, output review, and decision quality.
Strategy · May 26, 2026 · 1 min
Preserving Institutional Memory in Family Businesses with AI
In family businesses, knowledge of customers, production nuances, and the reasoning behind decisions made in difficult times accumulates over the years. AI can make that knowledge easier to access, while people remain responsible for its accuracy, context, and who can see it.
Strategy · May 24, 2026 · 1 min
Intergenerational AI Collaboration in Family Businesses
In family businesses, one generation's industry intuition and memory of risk can complement another's ability to try new tools and work with data. Working on a shared case offers a chance to assess both business results and the transfer of knowledge and responsibility between generations.
Strategy · May 23, 2026 · 1 min
How Can AI Governance Be Established in Family Businesses?
AI governance in family businesses defines who can make decisions and under what conditions. It can make room for experimentation while taking account of the family's values, the company's reputation, and employees' trust.
Strategy · May 6, 2026 · 1 min
Where Should Family Businesses Start with AI Investment?
When evaluating an AI investment in a family business, the company's growth goals, expected outcomes, and readiness should be considered together. Alongside time savings, the investment decision should account for quality, risk, customer impact, and employee development.
Strategy · May 4, 2026 · 3 min
45th in the Innovation Index: Why Do AI-Native Capabilities Matter for Türkiye?
The WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026 was announced in Geneva on September 29, 2026. Based on approximately 80 indicators, the gap between Türkiye's inputs and outputs suggests we also need to consider human capabilities when turning ideas into technology and economic value.
AI-Native · May 3, 2026 · 1 min
The New AI-Native Sprint Series Is Live
In the new AI-Native sprint series, teams work on real organizational cases. Starting with a strategic need, they reframe the problem, examine the human capabilities it requires, and test how people and AI will work together.
Always the Problem First, Then the Solution
Publications with Bora Kaykayoğlu on problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and going AI-native in the age of AI.