Category: Innovation

Latest Read: Building Better Organizations

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date May 25, 2024

Building Better Organizations: How to Fuel Growth and Lead in a Digital Era by Claudy Jules.

Claudy holds an MS in Organization Development from American University, an MS in Management from University of Maryland College Park and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.

Initially he led Google’s Center of Excellence on Organizational Health and Change. He moved to Managing Director at Accenture Strategy, then jumping back as an advisory for Alphabet’s CapitalG. Today is a Partner at McKinsey.

Here, Claudy reveals a rather essential read for organizations to discover or better understand how a playbook can help drive success when deploying well designed digital strategies that positively impacts the organization, employees and ultimately their customers regardless of market.

Regardless of the length of engagements with digital transformations, organizations simply must get their elements planned correctly. This obviously begins with strategy. The organization must have the right leadership in place to drive digital transformation. They must also have or develop employees with the talents to make the transformation a success. Much of this can fail if the organization’s culture will not support change. This is especially true in today’s new digital transformation by AI.

Tags Claudy Jules, culture, digital culture, Innovation, organization mission, tipping point

Artificial Intelligence Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Fusion Strategy

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date May 11, 2024

Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future by Vijay Govindarajan and Venkat Venkatraman.

Vijay holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is Professor of International Business at Dartmouth College. Venkat holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and is Professor of Information Systems at Boston College.

Mix AI innovation and digital strategy and you can certainly understand how real-time data can transform companies and their products. Furthermore, this book is addressing industrial and manufacturing firms., data-rich information was limited to a select few like Boeing.

So parsing terabytes of interconnected datasets, industries can drive new value by creating strategic connections not possible even 10 years ago. However Facebook, Amazon, and Google proved repeatedly that the collection of real-time data can drive innovation in a fast changing world. Especially for design and manufacturing firms, the deployment of inexpensive sensors, enhanced wireless technologies and real cheap computing wrapped around artificial intelligence will make industries shift overnight.

Tags datagraphs, Fusion Strategy, Harvard Business Review, Industrial, manufacturing, Venkat Venkatraman, Vijay Govindarajan

Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Long Life Learning

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 24, 2024

Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet by Michelle R. Weise.

A Fulbright scholar, Michelle holds a Masters and PhD in English from Stanford University and is a former Senior Higher Education Research Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

She was the former Chief Innovation Officer of Strada Institute for the Future of Work. Today Michelle is principal at her startup Rise and Design.

Michelle is delivering insightful messages for educators, legislators, and anyone interested in the future of jobs across America. While the primary audience is higher education, K12 and legislators should pay attention.

So, everyone above must learn how our global future will require new skills that continue to emerge. AI is certainly hijacking this process even faster that Michelle addressed.

However she does firmly plant the need for educators, industry, and government to collaborate to secure America’s continued economic growth. We must all embrace change at a rapid pace impacting work. In order to stay afloat we must embrace continued learning. So, Long Life Learning reveals the rapid change we are experience today. Simply put the pace has increased since the pandemic. As a result, new learning models are needed starting in K12, expanding into higher education, and culminating in her ‘long life learning’ model.

Tags jobs, Long Life Learning, Michelle R. Weise, Walmart, Workforce

Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Open Talent

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 17, 2024

Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges by John Winsor and Jin H. Paik

John holds an MBA from the University of Denver. He is Founder and CEO of Open Assembly and visiting Executive at Harvard. He was the former chief innovation officer of Havas.

Jin holds a master’s degree from Harvard University. In addition, he is a co-founder of Altruistic and research scientist at Harvard. He was previously the Head of Labs at the Data, Digital, and Design Institute and founding General Manager at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.

John and Jin are certainly delivering a powerful book for organizations. In our post pandemic world, perhaps in fact no greater impact upon the workplace has fundamentally changed the global economy.

While leased office spaces have forever changed, the new normal is hybrid work with AI empowered tools. In fact, by March 2024 most organizations do not yet understand the full impact of AI Agents. These will drastically alter every organization’s idea of work. Perhaps just like the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 across the globe. 100 million users within 60 days. AI Agents may have a similar impact upon workflows.

Tags Jin H. Paik, John Winsor, Open Talent, Work, Workforce

Artificial Intelligence Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Gödel, Escher, Bach

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 30, 2023

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter. Douglas is a cognitive and computer scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon.

This book published in 1979 won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science.

There have been so many references to this book that it remains difficult to compile. So, in short, Melanie Mitchell’s book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans outlines her collaboration with Douglas in writing CopyCat.

Since publication 45 years ago, I would certainly suggest listening to the The Episodic Podcast book review episode. I found that listening to a chapter review before reading the chapter helped me digest Douglas’ insights. Then after re-listened to the chapter for a full understanding. While this is certainly rare to recommend, it helped me better understand this book.

I have been digesting a series of resources regarding this book. In Google’s podcast interview with Melanie, she acknowledges visiting Google’s AI team with Douglas and learning his book is required reading.

So, Douglas is exploring the work of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He expands beyond their creative concepts in mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. In fact, Douglas is revealing his analysis is actually not about their amazingly creative work, but instead is illustrating how cognition emerges.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel Escher Bach