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See what new AI developments mean for business models, strategy, competition, organisation and decisions. To the point.
If you discard nothing, you've decided nothing
GPT as a guest in the HSG Senior Management Program. That strategy also means deciding against things has been widely known at least since Michael Porter: …
70 percent machine. 30 percent human.
Two days in the MBA Technology & Innovation at the University of Liechtenstein. The topic: business models and customer experience. Asked how they currently approach …
The internet no longer belongs to us
For 30 years we built the web for people. Now AI is its biggest customer. A machine now reads your page before any human does – and …
The numbers have never been better. That is exactly the problem.
Develop your Strategic AI Skills – MBA course at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). On paper a boom: for the first time in its history the global rail industry has …
AI as a strategic sparring partner – a real-world example
New publication: Boosting Strategy Execution and Business Results with Artificial Intelligence. A Practical Tested Use Case. After two years of research and …
AI-powered Business Wargaming: Car Wars
Who wins the next decade of the automotive industry? 130 years of competition over engine technology, brand prestige and manufacturing efficiency. And suddenly …
Three things AI does to strategy – and what we need to talk about
Observations from practice. Over the past months I have intensively supported a dozen companies on AI and strategy. Three things stood out in particular …
APPLY INSTEAD OF WAITING
No lecture. No slides. Just one question that wouldn't let the leadership team go: not whether AI is coming – but what we do before it …
AI Bootcamp at the candy factory
There are moments in consulting projects when the setting becomes the perfect metaphor. The AI Bootcamp with SWEET TEC GmbH was one such moment. The …
What remains when AI automates?
AI STRATEGY LAB: a view from the year 2035. What remains when AI automates?As part of the AI Strategy Lab at the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich …
AI-POWERED PROBLEM SOLVING
How to co-work on complex problems with AI? An impressive 97 students put it to the test. After mastering classical problem-solving techniques at the YOU WEEK …
Executing strategy is often harder than developing it.
At the WKO strategy retreat I gave an impulse on “Execution & transformation in the age of AI” – after we had already worked together in 2024 …
4x4x4 – Business Model Innovation
AI-supported business modeling. Four teams. Four sprints. Four hours. Four new business models. What sounds like an equation from the startup world was the …
HSG MBA at the STRATEGY LAB: AI-powered Foresight & Business Wargaming
Our goal: not to predict the future – but to shape it. Using artificial intelligence in strategy development, we built action-ready strategies …
ZIKpunkt impulse: tackling the AI roadmap
Buckle up – AI is picking up speed. Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. It will fundamentally shape our world in the decades to come. But …
GPT-supported strategy development: new horizons in strategy execution
Human & Machine. In my MBA course at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) we combined traditional strategy methods with innovative use of AI. In doing so …
The strategy work of the future
Conference talk in Berlin. In an ever faster and more complex world, strategy work can no longer follow the traditional rhythm of one year for five …
Strategic Foresight: Minds X Machines & Energy Competence Center (University of St. Gallen)
The future of the energy market is complex, dynamic and full of uncertainty. To meet these challenges, mindsXmachines.com, together with …
Transa's 16 future worlds
We accelerated Strategic Foresight with AI and in 3 days developed SIXTEEN future worlds in 2034 for TRAИSA. Strategy work is about …
AI and strategy execution: a real-world case
A publication by Claudio Di Fratta, Erwin Hettich and Luigi Di Lillo.
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