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(Don’t) Hail the Chief!
When a new technology or way of working emerges, the first instinct of many organisations is to appoint a Chief X Officer, which provides the comfort of knowing somebody has ‘got this’ and also that there is ‘one throat to choke’ in terms of accountability. And of...
From prompt whispering to model sommeliers: how best to think about the ‘atomic’ nature of LLMs in the AI evolution story?
The controversial investor Chamath Palihapitiya last year re-told a story about the rise of refrigeration that concluded it was not the fridge makers who captured the value their invention created, but firms like Coca-Cola who used the technology to build a global...
Centaur service teams and the role of narrow AI in organisations
In deploying AI and automation to upgrade our old organisational systems of work coordination, we should embrace the fact that we are still in the Centaur chess stage, that it might last a while, and that this is probably a good thing. Enterprise AI is built on the...
Accelerating the Map → Change → Learn loop to guide enterprise AI adoption
Welcome to our revamped newsletter, which we are expanding into a learning companion for leaders and practitioners working to advance real-world applications of AI and emerging digital workplace technologies. We will continue to publish this free edition every other...
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...