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?? Consulting Goes Wrong: Wheelie Bin Edition

?? Tips & Tricks: Automated Notetaking

?? Getting AI Ready: Align Your Teams

?? The Art Of AI: It's Speeding Up

?? Simplifying AI: Can You Be More Creative?

BAD AI CONSULTING: Let's Bin It Off

Holy dustcarts of Gotham.

This week we've binned off our regular Bad AI slot in favour of some fresh consulting hell we've come across. The guilty party? McKinsey.

They took it upon themselves to charge NYC sanitation $1.6m for 'consultation' on new and innovative ways to collect rubbish.

The answer? A 200-slide PowerPoint with a recommendation to put the trash in a wheelie bin - followed by, we'd imagine, a multi-million dollar 'implementation phase'.

FML.

McKinsey consultant: This report is an avant-garde, paradigm-shifting framework to optimise refuse modalities.

NYC: My uncle Tony works in waste management, let me give him a call.

McKinsey consultant: We can offer a leveraged, holistic ecosystem approach to revolutionise the waste throughput, for a mere $115+ million.

NYC: We'll be throughputting your ashes across the 5 boroughs if you don't stump up a refund pronto pal.

If you want clear AI advice, bold ideas, challenging discussions, new perspectives, and a solid plan then get in touch and we'll have a chat over a coffee. No Waste.

AI TIPS & TRICKS: Automated?Notetaking

If you’re not using an AI notetaker where have you been for the past 6 months??!!

Our favourite is Fireflies.

Why?

Because it'll join any virtual meeting you are in, whether that’s Teams, Google, Zoom, WebEx or GoToMeeting…I mean come on, who’s using those last two in 2024.

It records the meeting, writes up a summary, gives you the full transcript and has a load of other useful stuff.

One of our favourites is the speaker breakdown where you can see who spoke the most and how many words per minute they spoke at. Great for teams to be able to see this information and ensure everyone is getting the right amount of floor time.

Just go to Fireflies.ai to find out more.

AI ALIGNMENT: Get Your Business Ready Now

One of the key areas we see businesses falling down on in AI is alignment.

?We've crafted AI surveys specifically to deal with that, targeting both executives and wider teams. Here's why they're indispensable:

? Get the truth of today?-?Discover how AI is currently being used across your business.

? Fear v excitement?-?Gauge the emotional landscape – are your teams fearful or excited about AI?

? Reduce risk?-?Identify improper AI use and mitigate potential business risks - even if they shouldn't be some people are using AI for tasks today.

? Drive alignment and comms?– Use the insights?to drive better alignment, communications and training across the organisation.

?We're offering a limited number of alignment projects for new clients, at ￡4995. Don't miss out. Contact us to talk about surveying your organisation

ART OF AI: Guess Who?

AI, you've come a long way. These images of famous people are from MidJourney V1 (2022) when it still looked like a creative toy.

Now we've got large organisations like Klarna (and some of our clients) saving hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of pounds by using AI creatively with the right process.

Did you get all 3? (Hint: think 'B')?

Answers on a postcard or drop us a comment on LinkedIn

You can get free training on setting up brand TOV and loads more here.

WTF IS AI ANYWAY:? Simplifying The Complex

?Can AI make you more creative?

?A new study has given some insight into how AI impacts written creativity in people, with the perception of our own writing prowess and homogenisation concerns some of the key areas.

• Less creative writers benefit the most from AI help. We've seen this in other areas too - where 'low performers' gain most from artificial assistance in the customer service function.
• People's own assessments of how much AI helped them was lower than when other people reviewed their work - i.e. we rate our own creativity more highly.
• There was an increased similarity among AI-assisted stories - the homogenisation of creativity using the tools was a concern

What should you or your team make of this?

Well, the upside is AI can really help? with the 'blank page' problem for some people - though if everything sounds the similar we end up in spiral of sameness. Good prompt frameworks, setting up your TOV and asking for uncommon, wild or random ideas can be your friend here.

You can see the research here.

WHATS NEW: Trends and Insight Shorts

> SearchGPT might be the new Google

> Finance goes for homegrown AI

> Paris is the first AI Olympics

> JP Morgan gets suite on LLMs

> Academia is worried about this deal

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