AI for Orchestrators - Newsletter #23

The latest AI insights for Business Leaders and Organisational Orchestrators.

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Hello Business Orchestrators!

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Orchestrator Summary:

Agents combined with LLMs are allowing us to re-imagine business workflows, bypassing traditional organisational silos. Expect this to snowball rapidly. Reactions will vary. Startups and SMEs can move very fast, and track and realise growth and efficiency faster. Corporates require the right mindset at higher levels to capitalise on, and scale up, all of the innovations seeping into the various silos.

Expect the growth in agent-powered tasks and workflows to increase the transaction rates. In many traditional organisations efficiency rates for connecting buyers and sellers can be low because of organisational friction in the system.

Expect to see a growth in the trend of Fractional Leaders in startups and SMEs who understand the implications of where and how fast the GenAI/agent/workflow winds are blowing. Initially a popular solution for CFOs, this category of jobs will increase across CEO, CTO, CHRO etc.

Business schools offering Executive education will have to grapple with the shifts outlined above. Implications of LLMs, Agents and augmented workflows will go from theory to mainstream rapidly. Expect to see radical changes in the modular approaches that many one and two year programmes offer. Expect to also see a focus on simulation. Those schools that can adapt in real-time in line with their clients will have a competitive advantage.

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:

• JP Morgan rolling out its GenAI tooling to 140k employees and aiming to drive up revenues significantly by enhancing employees (CIO Dive). Meanwhile, in other industries such as tech, management are reacting to self-inflicted challenges (they were in charge) with “restructuring”, code for layoffs. Mindset, skillset, toolset reorientation opportunities here.

• Early use cases for OpenAI o1 and agents (The AI Advantage YouTube).

• Agent.ai platform for agents. A taste of things to come of how organisations over the next couple of years will start to use agent brokerages to execute existing and new types of workflows. Intriguing.

• Turn research papers and other documents into podcasts; consider the implications for building that capability into your workflows, regardless of the type of organisation. Join the waiting list for Google Illuminate.

• Adobe previews upcoming text-to-video tools (The Verge).

• World Labs have come out of stealth with a big funding round for their Spatial Intelligence business. Expect to see more money and effort moving into this..space. Consider how it will start mixing with parallel AI/agentic developments spinning out across industries, and creating new ones (Fei-Fei Li LinkedIn).

5 questions for Organisational Orchestrators:

1. How are you ensuring that your leadership mindset is equipped to capitalise on the rapid pace of innovation from LLMs and agents across traditional silos?

2. Are you prepared to compete with startups and SMEs that can adopt agent-driven workflows faster, and how can you remove internal friction to match their agility?

3. As agent-powered workflows grow, what specific steps are you taking to increase efficiency in your buyer-seller transactions and reduce system friction?

4. How will you leverage the rise of Fractional Leaders across key C-level roles to adapt faster to the shifting GenAI landscape?

5. Are your executive education programs prepared to integrate real-time, simulation-driven training on LLMs and agent-driven workflows to stay ahead of the curve?

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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.