InnerVentures

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    This post captures sense making and writing from others I thought worth sharing with my subscribers. I’ve automated this (more on how if interested) but the curation, which is a discerning process, is all human. This month’s collection is predominantly focused on AI and its adoption in the enterprise since I am writing a trend report focused on…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • A fire in my head

    I’ve been writing a lot about AI recently. I work with the technology every day and I’m doing research for a new trend report on the subject. I’m drowning in AI. This post is about writing, creativity, ideas and the importance of this faced with an onslaught of AI. I often write to sense make.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • AI and Humans at Work – An Experiment

    I’m working on a trend report (Future of HumAIn Work) exploring the interrelationship between AI technologies and the employee experience. I experimented researching an aspect of the subject using AI and this post showcases the approach and result. I was inspired by a recent article I came across after numerous Copilot queries, by Mckinsey &…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    The myth that remote work stifles innovation and creativity is gaining ground–but the same evidence shows that it was only true in the pre-2010s workplace Posted on January 3. The pendulum keeps swinging and this time, in this article, in favour of remote work. It posits, with evidence, that with the advent of social and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    How to fight the “tyranny of small decisions” Posted on December 15. The book shop in Garrett’s local town always has beautiful displays. Every time he walks past, Garrett smiles at some quirky, cuddly toy hang-gliding … 5 Forces That Will Drive the Adoption of GenAI Posted on December 14. Today there’s a lot of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Build an adoption lab for your AI culture

    As every company becomes a technology company, so too must every company become proficient in the art and science of technology adoption. I’ve written about technology adoption and adoption hacking many times before since I work in this area in my professional capacity, with customers. As I wrote in a recent post too, we are…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Dont outsource all reasoning and communication to AI

    Charlie Munger (may he RIP) once said on AI: ‘I think old-fashioned intelligence works pretty well’. He was well known to have been sceptical of many things related to AI. Think what you may of him, he was a rather successful businessman who made many good decisions in his life, so I’d be inclined to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The ways and means of technology adoption and strategy

    Last week I wrote about Microsoft’s Viva [employee experience platform] supporting adoption of it’s new AI technology Copilot which is embedded in the Microsft 365 productivity suite (disclosure). This week I wanted to contextualise things a little. Other than just supporting adoption of a new technology like Copilot, Microsoft Viva has to be considered much…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Microsoft Viva supporting adoption of M365 Copilot

    As I work on both technologies with customers (disclosure) I wanted to share how I am going about supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with Microsoft Viva technologies, especially with adoption activities. It’s no secret in the technology world that you cannot just make technologies available to users without making an effort to onboard them and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The powers and limitations of generative AI in writing

    I think there are broadly three areas in which Generative AI is having an impact on creativity and/or productivity at work. I asked ChatGPT to elaborate on the three and the result I got is below. A great result if I may say and far better than I could have done in the time. So…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    How brands are reshaping the subscription economy Posted on September 22. The subscription market is booming, fueled by consumers’ thirst for content, convenience and innovative products and services. At the same time, … OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking Posted on September 13. Of all the forms of human intellect that…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • 5 reasons why those using AI will accelerate innovation

    I’m talking about how the use of AI will accelerate innovation efforts and outcomes for startups and established companies alike. How those that use AI for these efforts will outsmart and outperform those that don’t. Innovation will be a major beneficiary of AI as the process of innovation becomes more efficient and the management of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Future of humain work – research

    So in this post I just want to highlight two main aspects of investigation that will likely form part of the trend report. The dynamics of human and AI interactions as research subject I unfortunately cannot share details of a piece of research I have been privy to as a result of working at Microsoft…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    Which business tasks can AI take on? And which can it not? Posted on July 20.How many businesses currently use AI? Taking the UK as an example, about 15 per cent of all businesses — roughly 432,000 — had adopted at least one form of artificial intelligence technology by January 2022, according to a government…

    Stephen Danelutti