In this episode, we frame the challenge of adapting to AI using the octopus organization model. Stephen Wunker, Managing Director at New Markets Advisors and co-author of AI and the Octopus Organization, discusses the need to think beyond 5% process efficiencies and aim for 35% process rethink. Drawing on lessons from the first smartphone, Stephen explains the "Three Hearts" framework for balancing analytic, agile, and aligned operations. The conversation also tackles the need for rapid rewrite squads, cross-functional teams empowered to quickly adapt workflows, and how to set organizational guardrails against the potential for dangerous “rogue AI.”

Join us as we discuss:

• [4:40] Addressing legacy processes before trying to solve new problems with AI

• [10:01] What human orgs can learn from the agility and adaptability of the octopus

• [19:53] The dangers of reckless AI use across siloed departments and the hardest part about an organizational transition to an AI strategy

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