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31 August 2023

From Pilots to Copilots: scaling enterprise generative AI with data, controls and measurable value

Scaling generative artificial intelligence is a portfolio decision, taken against baselines and stop thresholds that are written down before any pilot runs. Nothing in this article constitutes legal advice. It is offered to support discussion and further review with qualified advisers. How should an organisation decide which ...

29 August 2023

Lessons from a Scaleup Strategy

Strategies to Grow Your Business In the competitive landscape of today's business world, it is imperative for companies to continuously seek out strategies that will enable them to grow and thrive. Whether you are a startup or scaleup looking to establish your presence in the market ...

12 July 2023

Importance of the Film Festival

Integrated Film Marketing StrategiesIn the ever-evolving landscape of the film industry, the significance of film festivals as a cornerstone of marketing strategies cannot be overstated. For filmmakers, producers, and distributors, these events offer far more than just the opportunity to showcase their work—they provide a ...

A deferred decision on an office table, illustrating the unrecorded cost of waiting to adopt AI

29 June 2023

The Cost of Waiting: precaution, opportunity and the ethics of not adopting AI

Paper six of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, and the one most likely to be misread as an argument for moving fast. It is an argument for symmetry. Why is deferral treated as the safe option? Because its costs ...

08 June 2023

Effective Data Strategies

The Importance of an Effective Data Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, data has become the lifeblood of organisations across industries. The ability to collect, analyse, and utilise data effectively can make the difference between thriving and merely surviving in a competitive marketplace. An effective ...

31 May 2023

The Enterprise AI Skills Map: building workforce readiness for generative AI

The paper argued that the scarce enterprise capability was machine fluency joined to domain judgement and responsible execution, and that organisations were buying the first of the three because it was the only one a vendor could supply. What did The Enterprise AI Skills Map argue? The ...

An approval document beside a system that has since changed, illustrating point-in-time assurance

31 May 2023

Approved Once, Changed Daily: from point-in-time ethics to continuous AI assurance

Paper five of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, on what happens to an approval after the committee has given it. What is wrong with approving an AI system once? The approval certifies a system that will soon not exist, ...

01 May 2023

Ecaveo AI

Unlocking the Future of Business Advisory with Generative AIThe landscape of business advisory is undergoing a seismic shift. As the pace of innovation accelerates and the challenges faced by entrepreneurs become more complex, traditional advisory methods are being complemented, and in some cases, redefined, by ...

A meeting in which responsibility for an AI-supported decision is dispersed across several parties

28 April 2023

Everybody’s System, Nobody’s Risk: accountability gaps in distributed AI governance

Paper four of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, written as the UK set out its intention to regulate AI through existing regulators rather than a new one. How does accountability go missing in an AI supply chain? Through an ...

04 April 2023

Wrangling the Hype of AI

Caution Beyond the HypeGenerative AI, such as ChatGPT, ClaudeAI and Midjourney, is garnering significant attention from businesses eager to adopt the latest technology. However, amid the excitement, it’s critical for leaders to avoid being swayed by exaggerated claims of imminent disruption or transformative power.Historically, early ...

The same AI tool used in two very different work settings, illustrating adoption as a configuration rather than a model

31 March 2023

The Unit of Adoption: why organisations adopt configurations, not models

Paper three of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, written in the month that embedded assistants were announced across mainstream office software. What does an organisation actually adopt? Never a model. It adopts a configuration of seven elements, of which ...

31 March 2023

Prompt Literacy at Work: a practical framework for better human and machine collaboration

Prompt literacy is a verification discipline with a drafting technique attached, and an organisation that teaches the technique alone gets faster production of work nobody has checked. What is prompt literacy? Prompt literacy is five things done in sequence. State a goal, supply the context the system ...

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From Pilots to Copilots: scaling enterprise generative AI with data, controls and measurable value

Lessons from a Scaleup Strategy

Importance of the Film Festival

The Cost of Waiting: precaution, opportunity and the ethics of not adopting AI

Effective Data Strategies

The Enterprise AI Skills Map: building workforce readiness for generative AI

Approved Once, Changed Daily: from point-in-time ethics to continuous AI assurance

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Everybody’s System, Nobody’s Risk: accountability gaps in distributed AI governance

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