Michael Piko

Michael Piko is a Chief Information Officer, strategic consultant, and author based in Melbourne, Australia. Over thirty years he has worked inside organisations across healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, government, universities, and technology, advising on strategy and decision-making at the point where it matters most.

Building a Business Brain is the result of a pattern he observed repeatedly across those thirty years. The executives who navigated their environments well were not always the ones with the best information. They were the ones who had developed a reliable way of reading what was actually pressing on them, which signals mattered, which could wait, and what the combination of forces around them was building toward. That instinct, he found, could be formalised. Made visible, recordable, and cumulative. Available to any business willing to apply it with discipline.

The framework in this book has been developed and applied in active consulting engagements across industries and organisation types. It is not academic theory. It is a working method, refined over decades, now available in full.

Michael is the founder of Cyder Solutions and the author of the Business Brain book series.