Jenny K. on LinkedIn: Say Good-Bye to Fire Drills for Good. Here’s How… (2024)

These conversations are getting interesting! I love having a front-row seat to how CEOs and CFOs are thinking about and engaging with AI. I can already sense the subtle shifts according to the questions asked and the palpable mood in the room. We go from questions regarding "how do we get started?" and "how many jobs will this replace?", and while those questions are most definitely still relevant, we now start to hear about actual use cases and "how do I manage change management within my team?" I think the world is getting used to the notion that AI won't take over the world overnight and there are challenges (data... data... data...) but grassroots enthusiasm, ingenuity, and appetite for opportunity is pushing progress forward more than you would think. #aiforcfos #enterpriseai #aidecisionmaking

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It was a meeting-of-the-minds evening, spending time with the Alliance for Decision Education and Annie Duke, with our Head of Data, Heather Leek! I first heard of Annie, and read her book, Thinking in Bets, when an NYU Stern fellow alum, Russell Scherwin, upon hearing me talk about Cooper AI said "you should read this book, you really talk about a lot of similar things" and gifted it to me. I've been a fan ever since. When describing Cooper to CxO's and how we will become the world's smartest decision-enabling platform for business leaders, I say "imagine you are playing in a high-stakes poker final, and you are the only one with a database of millions of poker hands played, the known variables, and the outcomes, and this system is helping you think through your decisions based on that knowledge" - THAT's the vision of Cooper for enterprise. #decisionintelligence #decisionmaking #decisionai #thinkinginbets

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Forget about Sunday Scaries, Monday Blues, TGI Fridays... there's a better way to work. And AI is only accelerating our pace towards it.#purposedrivenwork #whatispurpose #enterpriseai #futureofwork

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"If you are a writer, you will write a lot of unoriginal work before you write something original. And the time and effort expended on that unoriginal work isn't wasted; on the contrary, I would suggest that it is specifically what enables you to eventually create something original."For those of us that have had our fair share of hard knocks in the business world, being able to take short cuts utilizing Gen-AI is a godsend. We know what good looks like, we can ask for it, and we can vet the output appropriately. But what about those that are starting their professional journey in this environment?👉 How do you know how to refine an AI-generated board deck, if you've never had to experiment with the multiple ways to present facts effectively to a board?👉 How do you vet a detailed AI-generated financial model, if you've never built every assumption from the ground-up before and know how delicate the interconnected logic is?We'll figure it out of course. We've been losing bits of our brainpower ever since the calculator, the computer, excel, Google maps, IMDB (for those who like to wonder "where have I seen that actor before...?")... and yet civilization remains intact. I just wonder about how our professional learning environment will now evolve with AI and hybrid work.#humanoriginality #aiforgood #hybridwork #ailearninghttps://lnkd.in/geAb4ZxC

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"While we may use logic to reason ourselves toward a decision, the actual decision-making is governed by emotion" - what a fascinating statement based on neuro-scientific studies in the negotiation book I'm reading by Christopher Voss.It's an important statement all the more so in the context of today's AI concerns. AI will drive the logic towards a decision and sure we can even program it to "make" decisions (based on if-then parameters) but true decision-making, the kind that changes the course of human history, is still made through the very human territory of emotion. I connected this thought (rightly or wrongly) to some other news I read this morning, about 10-year old chess phenom Faustino Oro who recently defeated his hero Magnus Carlsen in a quickfire game. While chess is an incredibly logical game, presumably suited well for machine-like thinking, it's this quote by Faustino's coach that got my attention: " [Faustino is] a fighter: he always plays to win. That's quite outstanding because there are a lot of people who are very talented but when it comes to playing there can be a bit of fear and respect toward the rival..."So while all these master players may follow the same cold machine-like logic, in situations with such razor-thin differences in advantage, it is ultimately the emotional character that determines wins and losses? 🤔 💡 #deepthoughts #aidecisionmaking #chesshttps://lnkd.in/gxNQmQRc

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I got through college bussing and waiting tables, everywhere from big chains like Chili's restaurant to upscale dining. And in my twenties, I also opened Patio Lounge in Brooklyn, a beer and co*cktail lounge. I believe some of the best life skills I ever got were from these experiences. It may seem like a far cry from the tech space I'm in now, but it isn't really - hospitality is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where so many things are happening at every moment. This means every moment is a chance to do something better and every moment you don't is an opportunity lost - a perfect context in other words for tech-enablement to vasty enhance human actions. Cheers, Prost, 건배, Salud, and so on...! 😎 🥂 #hospitalityai #restaurantlife #restauranttech

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The hype around Prompt Engineering being the job of the future is emblematic of our approach to AI today. Training on how to ask questions appropriately for best output is important... ok. But that still doesn't take care of the bigger question of what you want to ask in the first place. What is the problem to be solved or the goal to be reached? As artists like to say "there's nothing scarier than a blank canvas." We are perpetuating the same problem we have had over the last decade related to general enterprise data. Just because we now overlay AI on top, does not mean the fundamental issue goes away, which is whether we understand: what do we need to know?! why do we need to know it?!Whether it's data-insights or AI-insights (same thing, new look, I say) the core requirements to be successful at getting the right answers and solutions lies here:- Goal orientation. It's all about asking the right question. Ask the wrong question get the wrong answer. Kind of like a twisted genie fable- Structured mindset. You are building a repeatable future. Set up your mind to build systems and processes, not one-offs- Deep deep love for data. It's not just numbers and letters. There is a huge world in there that tells you many fascinating stories, if you just know to lookTHIS is what we should be training our brains on. THIS is what our university and online courses should be teaching. #promptengineering #aitraining #aigoals #enterpriseai

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We talk with folks in Private Equity - it's our primary client segment. There's tremendous pressure to figure out how to apply AI to get better, faster. But the hesitation is real too. As of February 2024, only about 5% of American firms of all sizes said they used AI. And a further 7% plan to adopt it in the next 6 months (Economist, 3/1/2024).We know that AI is inevitable... as inevitable as were the internet and the personal computer. So the question is simply WHEN and HOW to get involved so as not to end up flat-footed and stay ahead of the game. I wrote a short article about it (3-min read). Hope you enjoy!#privateequity #aiforceos #enterprisesaas

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Nietzsche said that humans are "determined" by their bodies and are subject to its passions, impulses, and instincts. And yet... I look around and I see more of us pushing our boundaries and trying to change, than those of us sitting around wallowing in our tendencies. If we can be honest with ourselves about what humans are just not that good at doing and build things to help us get better at those things, then maybe we can move beyond what early philosophers saw and exceed our meager limitations.

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