Run Fast or Get Left Behind: Your AI Survival Guide

The digital revolution waits for no one. While some businesses stand paralyzed by uncertainty, others are racing ahead, integrating artificial intelligence into their core strategies and reimagining what's possible. 

This fascinating exploration reveals how AI has evolved from a theoretical concept to an essential business component, with narrow AI applications, generative capabilities, and the emerging frontier of agentic AI poised to transform workplaces forever.

TLDR:

• Businesses need to incorporate AI into core strategy including retention models, analytics, and next-best-action recommendations
• Managing digital labor requires different skills compared to managing human teams
• Digital transformation requires creating a culture of continuous change that is intelligent, creative and digitally enabled
• 95% correlation exists between better decision-making and better business outcomes
• Future trends include quantum computing reaching commercial viability by 2029

What happens when your workforce includes both humans and digital labor? Managing this hybrid team requires entirely new approaches to leadership, performance metrics, and organizational structure. 

We're moving toward what might be called "headless organizations" where technology drives operations, allocates tasks, and directs human workers raising profound questions about workplace dynamics and customer experience. As traditional roles evolve, exciting new positions are emerging: agentic AI architects, data strategists, generative AI content engineers, and more.

The future belongs to organizations that build cultures of continuous change intelligent, creative, and digitally enabled. Data analytics combined with AI provides both insight and foresight, with a 95% correlation between improved decision-making and better business outcomes. 

And on the horizon? Quantum computing reaching commercial viability by 2029, promising capabilities beyond our current imagination. Those who embrace change and invest in both technology and people will thrive, while those practicing "digital Darwinism" - hoping technology is just a passing fad- risk extinction. 

As one poignant observation notes: "You can choose comfort or you can choose growth. Both are painful, but growth in the longer term is a lot less painful than sitting doing nothing." Which will you choose?

Key times and takeaways: 

• Introduction: 00:00 - Exclusive Interview with Kieran Gilmurray
• Question 1: 00:22 - How has AI forced businesses to adapt their leadership approach? 
• Question 2: 04:16 - What’s the secret to successful digital transformation?
• Question 3: 07:29 - How can businesses use data analytics for a competitive advantage? 
• Question 4: 09:47 - Looking to the future of work, what are your predictions? 

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