AI for Orchestrators - Newsletter #18

The latest AI insights for Business Leaders and Organisational Orchestrators.

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Inspiration and potential for new business models harnessing generative AI often come from outside your industry…

Hello Business Orchestrators!

In this weeks newsletter:

A few of observations after a week of workshops on the road with Private Equity and the impacts of Generative AI on investment decisions.

First, that company you maybe targeting is, or will be, undergoing significant shifts in productivity. Those can accrue very quickly from pockets of improvement all the way up to revenue and margin depending on many factors, including size of the organisation, current leadership, external pressures etc.

Secondly, productivity improvements and extra capacity released in the current OPEX as a result of rolling utilisation of GenAI across workflows, can affect the PE’s financial engineering assumptions over a short time period (relative).

Third, assumptions about bringing in new leadership post-deal need to account for continuous radical shifts in workflow productivity. Those LLMs, and the thousands of global use cases driving dynamic feedback loops and flywheels on possibility/capability means that you need a team who know how to harness the wind and waves.

Fourth, the same LLM capabilities are (almost) freely available to the competition, customers, partners and customers. Are you investing in a business with a short shelf life? The Investors assumptions and mindset on future cashflow needs to be continuously rewired.

Fifth, these same evolving GenAI capabilities are available to the Private Equity/Investor organisation, and there are strong signs that many are beginning to take advantage of them.

Generative AI is revolutionising our approach to business. By compressing time and cost, we can achieve higher quality outcomes than ever before. This technology compels us to rethink workflows, making them more efficient and innovative. As we gear up for the next wave of advancements in LLMs, it's crucial to stay ahead. Our business assumptions must remain flexible, adapting constantly to new capabilities. Planning our resources with this agility in mind will keep us competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Lets dive into some of the weeks headlines that could be on your radars, dear Orchestrators, as you give me 5 minutes of your valuable time!

This weeks attention grabbers:

• PWC’s deal with OpenAI on ChatGPT Enterprise including reselling. An interesting one to keep tabs on. Especially for customer’s Procurement Leaders negotiating value with the big consultancies! CIO Dive has the insights.

• The latest comprehensive set of guesses on the future of work from McKinsey. Lots to dive into, challenge and ponder.

• An insightful new vid out from Boston Consulting Group on “When AI comes for knowledge workers..” Get ahead of the game.

• CFO peer audit: What would you do with 4 extra hours? CFO mag. Seriously…? How about the 100’s of extra hours of extra OPEX capacity your business is accruing on a rolling basis…?

• La France est en marche avec l’AI générative. CNBC.

• A day in the life of an LLM jail breaker. VentureBeat.

• African tech startups catering to the continents needs. Techxplore has more.

• …and getting AI advice helps boost profits of high performing Kenyan entrepreneurs by 18%. Ethan Mollick/LinkedIn.

• More big media deals with OpenAI. Axios.

• Teaching robots to move by sketching trajectories. Carnegie Mellon University.

Bonus: 5 questions for Private Equity and other Investors:

1. How will the targeted company's current leadership and external pressures impact the speed and scale of productivity gains from GenAI integration?

2. In what ways can rolling out GenAI across workflows influence our financial engineering assumptions in the short and long term?

3. How should our plans for new leadership post-deal incorporate the continuous shifts in workflow productivity driven by LLMs?

4. How do we plan to stay ahead when competitors, customers, and partners have almost equal access to the same GenAI capabilities?

5. How can we leverage GenAI within our own Investor operations to maintain a competitive edge and enhance decision-making?

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