Introduction

0:04 but now I'm very pleased to introduce Dr George Westerman principal research scientist at the MIT SLO School of Management Dr Westerman is a world recognized thought leader in leading transformation and competitive advantage through technological innovation he works at the really exciting intersection of executive leadership and digital Innovation to provide continuous valuable sites to leaders in all Industries George welcome thanks Todd it's really great to be here and um I'm it's especially great because at home we got 5 Ines of snow yesterday and there was no snow on the ground here so that's a good thing so um yeah I teach in the management school and so what I focused on he said Technology Innovation leadership I Tred to take Technologies and make them to Dem mystify them to help leaders understand what's happening there and really think about how do you design your organization and how do you lead transformation so I did some of the earliest research on digital transformation 15 years ago to tell you how long ago that was nobody used the word digital transformation back then

1:18 right and so wrote some book on that I I'd done work with it organizations before that I've done work in skills and careers and now of course AI all of those things come together AI is affecting all of that and so uh what I want to do today is talk to you a little bit about how do you think about generative Ai and how do you work that in your strategy now Eric has been doing AI for almost as long as I've been alive right and um I want to try to tell you about AI from a management standpoint and that means it will I will try to make it crystal clear for you in trying to make decisions in your organization but it's also means that if Eric and I disagree he's correct okay so that's where we want to go my job is to be as as clear as possible help you figure out the questions you can ask the instincts to develop as you are making decisions because all of you probably are having to make decisions with AI how can I help you understand that a little bit better or if I could say it a different way um how can it make a little bit less scary and make you feel more competent in dealing with this stuff so you ready to go