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Designing hybrid human-AI use cases for the enterprise
GPTs: fun, but also useful? Azeem Azhar is doing a great job of documenting and analysing the rapid development of GenAI in his excellent newsletter Exponential View, and last week he shared a discussion with one of the co-authors of the original Transformers paper...
Four Areas of AI Readiness We Need to Improve
We all have high hopes for the impact of AI and smart automation on the enterprise, but without urgent action on organisational readiness, the biggest improvements and productivity gains will likely be out of reach. As Dave Wright and Brian Solis wrote for CIO...
Could AI Be A Catalyst For Wider Organisational Change?
Productivity Hopes and the Solow Paradox Away from the breathless excitement about GPTs and their latest impressive content creation tricks, there has been some thoughtful discussion recently about the impact of AI on work and the organisations we build to coordinate...
Don’t Fear the Coming Trough of AI Disillusionment
2024 looks set to be a big year for enterprise AI adoption, but we need to think long-term and not be driven by the hype or the backlash. It looks like 2024 will be the year when GenAI, automation and smart systems gain a strong foothold in the enterprise. But...
Harnessing Corporate GPTs for a Transformative Digital Workplace
The Dawn of Corporate GPTs in the Digital Workplace The emergence of enterprise GPTs marks a new phase in the journey towards smarter, digital workplaces. One trend we are seeing already is the emergence of two distinct paths: specialised, domain-specific GPTs, such...
Free your leadership capacity to define team opportunity
Imagine an organisation where leaders are swarmed with tasks to the point they don’t dedicate any time to leading teams. Now imagine an organisation where leaders only focus on the performance of teams and try to micromanage every situation. Since neither option is...
Will AI Deliver the Productivity Boost we all Hope For?
Benchmarking against the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in human history which marked a monumental shift from manual labour to mechanised production. Yet, the productivity increase was initially only about 3% per decade between...
Accelerating Towards a Future-Fit HR
At a recent event in London for CHROs, HR professionals highlighted the speed of their own function’s transformation as a key challenge. Not keeping pace with the wider organisation’s change agenda means lots of change fronts opening up simultaneously, hampering the...
Crossing the chasm: how will we get from coaching apps to sentient organisations?
The OpenAI Dev day seems to have been a genuinely important milestone in the current wave of AI innovation and exploration - see the Verge’s coverage here - offering three major enhancements to previous functionality: GPT-4 Turbo with a 128k context window, which...
Bridging the Exponential Gap Will Need Dynamic, Transformative Structures, not just AI Magic
If only 7% of organisations are dynamic, we need to focus on creating more transformative structures rather than just sprinkle AI onto existing systems. We are living through weird times in business and geo-politics, and it is hard to watch long-lived...
A New Frontier for Private Equity: Digital Transformation Accelerators
Adjusting Sails: PE Firms After the End of Cheap Money The era of cheap money that allowed Private Equity (PE) firms to acquire assets by leveraging cheap borrowing appears to be over. Jared Gross analyses the challenges and considerations for private equity...
Short and long teeth in cross-functional teams
Organisations need more and better cross-functional teams with varied experiences and skillsets to tackle the complex problems they face today. But whilst they can be a powerful resource when they are working well, some research suggests that 75% of cross-functional...