Lean thinking drives AI prompt development
There are now hundreds of prompt templates and mnemonics emerging from the woodwork, many claiming to be ‘the one’.
As I ‘play’ with them, the similarity to the lean thinking ‘5 why’ tool is striking.
Are we just people in frog-suits slowly boiling?
The old order has been thrown against the wall, without a new one to take its place.
The predictable result is chaos.
Our politicians are ignoring Hofstadters law, and our grandchildren will pay.
Our politicians completely ignore Hofstadter’s law. The net result is a collection of short term fantasies dressed up as antidotes to the problems we face
Will AI clear bureaucratic logjams?
Anyone who has engaged with any bureaucracy at multiple levels will tell you that what is said at the top often does not get down to the operational levels.
Will the culture be too strong to allow the productivity benefits of AI to emerge?
Is compounding AI’s biggest challenge?
AI may have released us from the repetitive and mundane parts of our jobs, but that release comes with a price. We simply must be highly sceptical of the outputs, and subject them to vigorous scrutiny starting with first principles.
Failure to do so will enable the compounding of the error through subsequent iterations or operations of the tasks set.
The speed at which we can operate has been vastly accelerated by AI and so has the risk of compounding errors in AI output.
Humans are more necessary than ever.
The cost of media is only a small portion of the cost of a lousy ad.
Brand advertising, as distinct from the ‘get it now for a give-away price’ advertising is all about influencing behaviour in your favour, now, and into the future.
‘Price’ is a number, but ‘Pricing’ is a strategic weapon to use.
Price is just the number you slap on the tag. Pricing is the process that gets you to the right number, the one that optimises today’s profit while building tomorrow’s success.
As the owner of an SME, what is the hardest question you can ask yourself?
what are the questions a VC operator would ask if they walked into your business today?
Is your ‘conservative risk profile’ actually intellectual agoraphobia?
It appears to me that there is a wave of intellectual agoraphobia driven by the sudden emergence of AI platforms and tools gripping many of those I interact with commercially. My recently departed mother, in the last year or two of her life found it hard...
How will you re-harness the power of psychological ownership?
Increasingly we do not own things. That lack of ownership discourages brand loyalty and makes defining the boundaries of a contested market all that much harder to do in a way that reflects the psychology of potential customers.