AI for Orchestrators - Newsletter #9

The latest AI insights for Business Leaders and Organisational Orchestrators

Staccato provocation…

Does ChatGPT (or whatever LLM your prefer) have a seat at your management team or Board meetings, or do you wait till the next monthly get together to discuss the answers to questions raised at the previous meeting? The chances are your teams are using it on a daily basis to transform their workflows…

Hello Orchestrators!

AI for Orchestrators is a slimmed down version this week because Gaoithe Advisory are on the way to UAE for some exciting exponential activities. But below are a few interesting nuggets that have captured my attention this week, and maybe worthy of 5 minutes of your time.

Are you making enough use of strategic partnerships?

What about if you throw ChatGPT and simulation into the mix. On my mind, and the minds of Nordic leaders in workshops this week, have been turnaround time on decisions to collaborate, speed to injecting resources, mobilisation…and steering using the latest feedback from the project, enhanced by emerging GenAI capabilities.

And bottlenecks. So maybe we save a lot of time and perhaps improve quality on certain tasks in the workflows, but all the benefits accrued can be sucked away by bottlenecks in other parts of the business. Check out the 5 questions to consider at the bottom of the newsletter.

Anytime a technology is made usable the exponential curve becomes more visable. And with GenAI capabilities weaving their way into our daily productivity tools, we become experts. Even if we don’t realise it!

And that has enabled so many individuals and organisations to acquire what Salim Ismail terms “permission-less disruptive innovation”. Meaning you can go acquire the skills, knowledge, make plans and gain abundant resource to set you on your way to achieving your goal. Consider an organisation or a consortia of partnerships that utilised ChatGPT at scale to solve a particular challenge. Imagine being able to circumnavigate all that wasted time in meetings, and the float waiting for feedback, error correction etc.

For now, lets take a trawl through this weeks key headlines worthy of a few seconds of your precious time, dear Orchestrators!

This weeks news

• IBM’s out with a new report called the CEO’s guide to Generative AI book. There are some useful insights, refreshingly light on the buzzwords. The intro refers to a recent survey of CEO’s on their strategy regarding applying generative AI. The majority of CEOs inform that the strategy will be driven by the C-Suite. Tell that to the teams who are deploying it across their own workflows under their own steam. Consider also the gap between when the survey was made, and the publication. That’s an age in the exponential growth of GenAI across the business. So you need to constantly recalibrate where you are. There is also a useful section on Skills and Talent.

• Autonomous agents are getting…more autonomous, and creative. Check out this video from one of my favourite AI YouTubers, Wes Roth. Try projecting this across any of your workflows. Or your customers…

• What do ancient scrolls and Powerpoints have in common? Well have you ever tried deciphering last year’s Powerpoint strategy document? Consider the challenge that this team solved with 2000 year old ancient scrolls buried under a great volcanic eruption. These documents are so fragile they couldn’t be unwrapped. So a global community came together to apply computer vision, machine learning and a ton of hard work to reveal text that had been hidden for millennia. There’s a lesson there…

• GenAI Image labelling news.

• Great fireside chat from NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang.

5 (rolling) questions for Orchestrators:

1. How do you pinpoint which functions and workflows generative AI streamlines most effectively, and identify persistent bottlenecks that negate these efficiencies?

2. In what ways can we reevaluate and adjust key processes where generative AI has not significantly improved outcomes or cost savings?

3. What strategies are in place to measure the real impact of generative AI on operational costs versus its potential to introduce complexity or hidden expenses?

4. How can we leverage insights from generative AI applications to redesign or eliminate bottleneck processes, rather than merely automating existing inefficiencies?

5. Considering the integration of generative AI, what steps are we taking to ensure continuous process optimisation, rather than one-time gains that fail to evolve with our business needs?

Staccato Burst…

Identify, feedback, adjust, measure, leverage, and optimise: constantly sharpen AI's edge against process bottlenecks for real bottom-line impact…

That’s all for this week. If you’re curious you can also check out more insights from The Nordic Bridge on YouTube on the organisational implications from applying (or not applying) GenAI…