What Leaders Should Know About Measuring AI Project Value
Absolutely agree: “Most AI/machine learning projects report only on technical metrics that don’t tell leaders how much business value could be delivered. To prevent project…
Category: Good Reads
A Human-Centered Approach to Competitive Advantage
This article “A Human-Centered Approach to Competitive Advantage” by Kord Davis speaks to me/us from the heart and is not only a good read, but…
Team OKRs in Action
How to link operations with strategic vision? 👉 OKR. It stands for Objectives and Key Results. There are Company OKRs, Team OKR, and Personal OKR.…
The Real AI Bottleneck Is Organizational Reinvention, Not Computing Power
In my many lectures, trainings, and workshops on AI strategy & transformation, I repeatedly return to a topic that is not on the agenda: design…
Data Sanity in an AI World: How to Drive Real Business Value
To the point: “The central paradox of the current AI boom is our obsession with results while neglecting the source.”—Data sources drive AI results! There…
Is AI a “Normal Technology”?
This week’s good read is in fact a great read—from a thought leader whom I have followed for many years: Tim O’Reilly. He is asking…
Intelligence at scale: Data monetization in the age of gen AI
Even before the breakthrough of AI, it was a bad idea to sell your data instead of monetizing the products derived from data and analytics,…
Stop Chasing “Efficiency AI.” The Real Value Is in “Opportunity AI.”
We couldn’t agree more: “Companies pursuing incremental productivity gains risk being displaced by AI-native competitors building entirely new business models.” In our training courses and…
Monetizing Proprietary Data in the AI Boom
This week good read is a long read and it’s worth it! Especially if you think your company data is worth something. What makes data…
You Are the Data Culture
🎯 To the point: “Dashboards don’t create culture. Behaviors do.” Our project experience also shows that data is not the problem: 🧱 “Most orgs don’t…
Agentic AI Playbook
Agentic AI systems are a relatively new technology, and there’s a serious lack of best practices out there. However, some key patterns are already emerging…
Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator
Companies do NOT need supermens, but super-teams, and for that they need super-facilitators: “Super-facilitators are architects of optimal group performance. They generate collective intelligence, or a group’s…
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
😯 No joke, we’ve heard similar things before: “Mid-to-high-level managers are being told by their bosses that they need to use AI for X percent…
Coursera: Fast Prototyping of GenAI Apps with Streamlit
What many people misunderstand: Design Thinking (and therefore Data & AI Business Design) is NOT just about only sketching colorful user interfaces, AI workflows, architecture…
The Next Leap for AI: Why Agents Need to Learn to Believe
You’re into Agentic AI? Then you should check out psychology! Because the next big thing might be “Belief Engineering”: “Research suggests that many enterprises’ AI…
Seizing the Agentic AI Advantage
What was to be expected: “Nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AI—yet just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. Think of it…
A Playbook for Crafting AI Strategy
Already a few months old but still up to date: “A playbook for crafting AI strategy” by MIT Technology Review. 👇 I particularly like the…