How ever you refer to it AI or SI is not as complicated as it all sounds. AI is here and its doing incredible things. Businesses are trying an assortment of initiatives to maximise the opportunity. Some good, some poorly executed, some disastrous.
I have had the pleasure of guiding multiple businesses and their leadership groups through day 1 planning to day 90 what did we achieve scenarios for positively rolling out workable and visible AI improvements.
Businesses Using AI Lately
The business has “adopted AI” by getting a subscription to the mainstream providers (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok etc) and type away like they do a Google search and thats it, tick the box for business AI.
I usually encounter in workshops either
A) someone who has the right idea but not the right processes to properly move forward
B) a forward thinking person on the tools, pushing apps and building but they could’nt problem solve when asked
Both are fine, as a business leader you want to have curious employees who try new things, look for opportunities to make their jobs and the products and services that you sell better.
But AI has made it easy for everyone to do almost everything, without the learning curve associated traditionally and the headaches, late nights looking for solutions to problems that we have had to endure for many years before AI came along.
Problem & Solution
I do not overcomplicate the business needs.
There is always a problem to fix.
There is always a solution for the problem.
But in my experience companies either work in silos, solo as in no team, or over communicate by way of too many meetings, too many planning sessions and planning sessions to plan the planning meeting and nothing ever gets done inside of x timeline.
The Chunking Method
In my line of work starting with AI in a workshop usually gets me confused faces in a crowd, but using simple chunks of work as our starting point helps people find one quick problem and work out very quickly one quick solution for it.
Chunk 1 – we respond to leads only after the submit form has gone to a sales person
Chunk 1 solution – we use pre-drafted quote markers for quicker lead turnaround times with the goal to have the sales person call back to get the exact pricing
That is chunk 1 completed a small scope of work to fix an existing problem.
We have not used AI in the description, we just solved a problem.
The next chunk would be another isolated problem. We aim our attention towards that problem and work out the best way to solve it.
We could get a little bit more strategic once the workshop team have started to see how it works and line up a problems that one solution could solve hitting 1 or more problems on the head. I typically see the group improve gradually after seeing how chunking works.
Most businesses get AI integration wrong when rolling it out to their employees. The key is unlocking the way to use it for your employees so you can stand out in a crowded market, create things that your competitors cant copy.
AI doesn’t need to complicated
Yes we will be using various models, agents, skills, connectors and codebases for various things, but the output and result are what the team sees. When the use case click, the group learns how to problem solve with powerful tools at their disposal
AI goes from complex to helpful in a workshop.
When I deliver this type of work, companies have emailed me to say how well the employees have picked up the concepts and what they are now doing, usually building internal tools to solve their own problems, making the work easier, less time consuming and more cost effective.
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