Strategic thinking for leaders who suspect the AI hype cycle is missing the point.
Before you choose an AI, help it understand your business. 1. We’re Asking AI to Read a Language We Haven’t Written Yet Most organizations are rushing to adopt…
Why the current structure of knowledge work doesn’t make sense with the way we are working with AI When the first spreadsheet appeared in 1979, it didn’t just…
For years, business has revolved around the same unspoken assumption:if we can just capture, categorize, and report on enough data, we’ll finally understand what’s going on. That’s the…
Why Every Company’s AI Strategy Feels Like Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall There’s a peculiar performance happening in boardrooms across the world. Executives who couldn’t explain a neural…
Lessons learned from actually testing AI tools in real business scenarios. 1. Don’t Start with an “AI Strategy” AI is best learned by doing, not by planning in…
Every week another tool promises transformation. Another case study proves ROI. Another briefing shows the competitive risk of falling behind. ManagingAI is for the manager who reads that and asks: but what's actually true?
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Throughout history, humans have been using tools to get jobs done. The “Jobs to Be Done” theory of innovation suggests that humans “hire” tools to get things done…
If you thought managing people was challenging This is not ending well. As predicted by typical technology adoption patterns, AI is being deployed function by function in organizations,…
Using AI Where It Makes a Difference Everyone has seen the amazing things that artificial intelligence can do, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into massive gains in productivity.…
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