Executive and board workshops on AI and future strategy

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Much of my current work is with boards and executive teams on the implications of AI, the future of work, and strategy in rapidly changing environments.

In this overview document I provide details of 6 in-demand workshops, including key content, outcomes, and examples.

  • The Power of Generative AI
  • AI and the Future of Work
  • Framing Your AI Strategy
  • AI-Augmented Strategic Decision-Making
  • Thriving on Overload: Information Mastery
  • Future-Focused Leadership

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How AI will shape the future of creative agencies

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All professional services are being transformed by generative AI, but the impact is especially pointed for creative agencies. Agencies need to reconfigure themselves for a substantially different future.

The nature of the client-agency relationship will rapidly evolve, but in there lies an enormous opportunity to shift to a far more collaborative dynamic where value is co-created in seamless workflows across organizational boundaries.

I’ve distilling some of my recent thinking from client work in the space into this simple framework. I will be refining the high-level framework as well digging deeper into several aspects of this including workflow. I’d love any thoughts or feedback.
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Framework: Generative AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

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The history of humanity has been one of accelerating scientific and technological progress. Now, by amplifying the cognition and capabilities of scientists with AI, we can dramatically step up the pace of discovery.

By the very nature of discovery, we cannot know what we will learn. The coming advances in life and brain sciences and medicine alone will be absolutely transformative, let alone those in energy, materials science, food, and more.

This framework is a high-level distillation of a few of the cognitive tools and techniques for GenAI to assist scientists. As always it is a Beta version 1, please let me know any feedback or input to improve it!
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Framework: Levels of AI delegation in decision-making

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Soon virtually every decision will involve AI. For every decision we make, the critical first step is to determine the level of AI delegation. And then select the specific Humans + AI architecture most appropriate to the decision.

This framework is the latest iteration of the AI decision-making delegation frameworks I’ve been developing and using with clients, made concise for communication and easy digestion.
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The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma’s fundamental role in intelligence and our lives

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The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma is deeply relevant, not only to business strategy, but to many aspects of our lives.

It is also a fundamental underpinning of intelligence, human and artificial.

The dilemma is essentially: should we continue with what we have, or leave that behind to find something better?
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Future job prosperity: 13 reasons to believe in a positive future of work

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Many are crying doom about the future of work. I believe that a highly prosperous future of job is possible. It is even likely, on condition we do the right things today.

In order to create that future, we must believe it is possible. In this mini-report I have distilled the major arguments that a prosperous future of jobs is possible.
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The business models to support a prosperous future for news media

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I believe the media industry has a prosperous future. Today at the fabulous humAIn conference by Unmade I made that case in the concluding “debAIt”, arguing strongly against the proposition “AI is news media’s extinction level event”.

What this debate really boils down to is the business models for news media.

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Framework: Humans + AI in institutional investment portfolio decision-making

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The primary application of my Humans + AI work over the last 18 months has been in strategic decision-making, working with boards and executive teams to augment their decision-making processes and outcomes using generative AI.

The other major Humans + AI application I’ve been working on is in institutional investment decision-making. I am currently shifting more of my attention and work into this space. 

This framework provides a very high-level slice of a few of the many human and generative AI roles in different phases of portfolio decision-making.

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Jorge Luis Borges and the impact of AI on human creativity

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Jorge Luis Borges has been one of my favorite authors since my teens. Over the last couple of years I have often thought of one of his masterpieces, Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote, written in 1939, which turns out to be extremely relevant to the age of AI. 

The story recounts how a contemporary writer, Pierre Menard, rewrites Cervantes’ epic Don Quixote word for word. However he writes it entirely from his own context, making the text laden with layers of meaning missing from the original. The reviewer played by Borges in the piece finds the new Quixote, coinciding word for word with the original, enriched, astounding, and more significant than the original.

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Humans + AI in financial decision-making: consumer, portfolio, and organizational

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Arguably the entire finance industry can be framed as a massive inter-related array of decisions, by both clients and financial insttutions.

In this world AI wil be transformative, in most cases not by supplanting humans in the decision-making process, but in playing a role in ‘Humans + AI’ decision-making.

I was recently interviewed for the NAB Digital Next podcast for an episode titled Futurist Ross Dawson on humans and AI achieving more together. You can listen here, with some distilled reflections below.
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