You’re at Stage 4 of 6: AI as a Thought Partner & Teammate!
This is fantastic! You're engaging with AI strategically, using it to enhance your thinking and tackle complex ideas. You're truly collaborating.
What This Stage Means
You engage in deep, iterative collaboration with AI, seeing it as a teammate or strategic partner. You use AI to explore different perspectives, challenge your assumptions, and flesh out complex ideas. The goal is to help you think better, not just faster or more efficiently. You regularly engage in multiple rounds of conversation (3-4 or more) to refine output. You understand the critical importance of quality communication with AI.
Examples
AI challenges your negotiation biases or simulates key roles (customer, board member) using your business context. It can interview you for deeper insights, analyze lengthy texts, or act as an editor for its own outputs.
Key Tips to Advance Your AI Journey
Identify Repetitive Workflows: Actively look for tasks or multi-step processes in your work or organization that are performed regularly and could be streamlined or fully automated by AI.
Explore Customization and Personalization: Investigate AI tools and platforms that allow you to upload your own private data or knowledge bases securely. Learn about creating custom instructions or fine-tuning models for specific, consistent AI behavior tailored to your needs. Think about how much more powerful AI could be if it was consistently infused with your organization's specific know-how and strategic assets.
Think Strategically about Integration: Consider how AI can be deeply embedded into existing operations, products, or services to create lasting efficiencies or new value propositions, rather than just being used for ad-hoc tasks.
Gain "Nuts and Bolts" Experience: Move beyond just prompting. Explore tutorials, courses, or no-code/low-code AI development platforms to understand the underlying mechanics of building AI-powered solutions or agents.
Brainstorm Autonomous Agents: Begin to conceptualize how AI could perform sequential tasks with a degree of autonomy, potentially acting on your behalf for certain functions.
Thinking Bigger: AI Across Your Organization
As you begin exploring AI for yourself, it's also a good time to consider how this journey might unfold across your entire organization. We poured our expertise into a Company AI Assessment to get it right. In less than 5 minutes, you’ll get an unprecedented AI Company Maturity report with detailed, personalized recommendations that meet your company where it’s at.
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