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We’re now entering a new gen AI era, which is already impacting how we staff teams, their businessobjectives, and the tools they use to deliver innovations. CIOs have a new opportunity to communicate a gen AI vision for using copilots and improve their collaborative cultures to help accelerate AI adoption while avoiding risks.
The long-term impact is even more worrying — companies risk falling behind competitors who are implementing AI strategically. Rosen sees a lot of experimentation without a clear sense of direction, from companies that don’t have a clear idea of what AI projects will match their business needs. Businesses need to embrace it.”
Whether it was executing the Apollo mission or building the Burj Khalifa the common thread that runs through it is the role leaders play in supporting the team, encouraging experimentation and risk-taking and promoting idea meritocracy and inclusion.
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As they look to operationalize lessons learned through experimentation, they will deliver short-term wins and successfully play the gen AI — and other emerging tech — long game,” Leaver said. Determining the optimal level of autonomy to balance risk and efficiency will challenge business leaders,” Le Clair said.
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They need to become more creative in their delegation of responsibilities so that more time can be devoted to pushing experimentation,” Mains advises. By being aware of the risks and taking responsibility for your actions, you can minimize the damage and learn from your mistakes,” he advises.
Taylor adds that functional CIOs tend to concentrate on business-as-usual facets of IT such as system and services reliability; cost reduction and improving efficiency; risk management/ensuring the security and reliability of IT systems; and ongoing support of existing technology and tracking daily metrics.
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Slow progress frustrates teams and discourages future experimentation.” Fundamentally people don’t understand how their business activities — the processes, services, and customer journeys — are tied to the technologies,” Carandang says. They’re willing to take risks and be courageous and try new things.
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