If this project is successfully implemented, what would be the value for your team?

Seizing an AI Opportunity

You’re on your path to AI leadership. Before you go back to the office, I want to make sure that what you’ve learnt here helps you in your job.

A. Could you identify a few opportunities to use data analytics to improve your team’s performance? For example, you can think about a usual bottleneck you encounter or one of its main KPI’s where your team underperforms.

Remember, these opportunities can be tasks of classification or prediction (or generation?).

(Aim to write down at least 3 opportunities, but feel free to write down as many as you want!)

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It looks like this is going well. Now, choose the most promising among these opportunities.

(C) A. Lanteri, Seizing an AI Opportunity v1.2 Sources: Columbia University (2018), Harvard ManageMentor (2021), MIT CSAIL (2017) 1

B. Using the matrix below, classify the opportunities you’ve identified above, according to whether you can expect a big or small business outcome (if it helps, you can reevaluate this point after you answer point D. below) and the degree of complexity (e.g., number of elements, different data points, stakeholders that need be involved…).

HIGH COMPLEXITY

LOW COMPLEXITY

Remember to look for a quick win, initially. You can always scale your efforts and ambitions. So, you should probably start with an opportunity in the bottom-right quadrant.

Choose only one opportunity for the rest of this exercise. (You are welcome to repeat this process for your other opportunities later if you wish).

There are a few more questions for you to answer.

C. Which template for value creation will you use?

Real-Time Responsiveness (react to changing conditions)

Hyper-Customization (tailoring to unique stakeholders)

Insight (reveal invisible connections between inputs and outputs)

Prediction (anticipate future contingencies and behaviors)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
 
 


(C) A. Lanteri, Seizing an AI Opportunity v1.2 Sources: Columbia University (2018), Harvard ManageMentor (2021), MIT CSAIL (2017) 2

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D. If this project is successfully implemented, what would be the value for your team? For your company? And for you personally? What are some measurable improvements you will strive for?