Enterprise AI is getting stuck on people
AI AI AI but also can we pour one out for Mark Carney's historic speech? Hoping saner impulses prevail and as an IR major I'm very bummed about all the Melian Dialogue stuff of late.
Artificial Intelligence
Notes on what AI actually does to organizations, and why most predictions about it are wrong. The capability gap will be structural.
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AI and Obsolescence: Anthropic Research
Anthropic's research into Claude Code may signal the end of ideas like "role clarity" and "opportunities for growth and development." Is that a good thing?
Five OD Things N° 12
Selling personal super-intelligence; trust & safety heading for the exits; raw compute vs. the junk drawer; Wall Street loves shrinking payrolls; the first targets are email jobs
Five Org Design Things N° 8
Turns out it's about learning, all the way down: How basic technologies shift strategy; Microsoft's org structure research; X-Teams; building Service Design capability; democracy at work
Reimagining the marketing organization in the age of generative AI
I reviewed the academic literature on the potential for AI machine learning to automate certain professional tasks. Then I compared and ranked those functions against an actual marketing org – a mere 7% of which is strongly resistant to automation.
Software for Scaled Organizing
TL;DR: PowerPoint is a terrible tool for organization design, and we need a trusted alternative designed to match our values. And, sorry, leader-owned maps of reporting lines aren't the answer.
Accountants & Retail Employees: Look Out
Whether or not AI eats your job has to do with three bottlenecks: Perception & Manipulation; Creative Intelligence; Social Intelligence.
Five Org Design Things N° 1
Nine barriers to change; Nudges; Scalable learning; Learning at scale; McDonald's & Walmart are software.