{"id":5862,"date":"2024-07-10T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2024-09-12T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:34:48","slug":"genai-or-die_071024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/genai-or-die_071024\/","title":{"rendered":"GenAI or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"
We’ve finally reached the point in our careers when we need to learn new and more ingenious ways of doing things. No more papering over the cracks, no more passing the problems onto someone else to fix. WE are the problem that now needs fixing.<\/p>\n
For decades, we’ve been throwing trillions at our enterprise operations, namely ERP systems, data warehouses, RPA, software engineers, process architects, etc. But to what end? To eke out some more efficiency here, rinse out some cost there? Move some data around a bit faster? Are these solutions still relevant<\/em> by the time you\u2019re done? Or is there always a new, shinier option capturing everyone\u2019s attention?<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Click to Enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Yes, we\u2019ve been predicting the extinction of the corporate dinosaur for a while now, but we\u2019re truly arriving at the time when tired old businesses will be displaced if they persist on limping along under the sheer weight of valueless technology and transactional people, determined to cling on to the \u201cway we\u2019ve always done things.\u201d \u00a0Your firm will sink under its ability to change anything, it\u2019ll become increasingly uncompetitive, and you will go down with it groping for air, wondering why you suddenly lost your corporate relevance.<\/p>\n Eighteen months into the most significant technology rush since the ERP heydays, GenAI has the potential to change the game entirely because this is the first time business leaders can think like application developers to create new content, to access critical data, to command better ways to get things done, and so on.<\/p>\n Its ability to analyze unstructured data, create content, and qualitatively analyze and make recommendations is striking. The pace of model evolution and compute power is quickly advancing the technology to the point we are beginning to believe that GenAI-enabled middleware and frontend solutions may replace existing business process applications.<\/p>\n The big question now is whether business owners who clearly own innovation can reinvent how their companies operate or whether they are too burdened by three decades of technology, process, data, and culture debts.<\/p>\n Using Michael Porter’s Five Forces (+1) framework, let’s break down how generative AI (GenAI) is shaking up the enterprise world:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do you believe your current IT department, whose massive budget is 80% allocated to keeping the lights on, is your firm\u2019s best investment toward achieving your goals?<\/p>\n Do you believe that outsourcing your F&A team has solved your business problems? Do you think your 7-year global ERP suite implementation has kept pace with the changing needs of your business over this time? Considering breakthrough GenAI capabilities, it’s time you reflect on this \u2013 it\u2019s not too late to make radical changes to keep yourself relevant and reshape your business function as we stumble face-first into the Generative Era.<\/p>\n Over the last three decades, enterprises have implemented organizational models and technologies that perpetuate existing processes based on operating models dating back to the 1990s \u2013 and some even as far back as the Second World War.<\/p>\n Despite trillions of dollars spent over the decades, process automation and data remain a stark problem. Our latest data on this topic, in which 366 operations leaders (not technology leaders) identified their companies\u2019 top changes, clearly indicates this while also citing that they don\u2019t have the budget to fund the innovations they require.<\/p>\nIt’s time to reinvent our whole mindset toward enterprise operations to save ourselves from drowning in our legacy pools of technology, process, data, skills, and culture.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
GenAI is the closest we\u2019ve come to bridging the business\/IT chasm<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Generative AI is your secret weapon. It tears down barriers, fuels innovation, and keeps you ahead of the curve. Adapt or perish \u2013 the choice is yours.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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It’s time to effect real change and write off our painful legacies if we want real innovation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
We have to quit funneling most of our tech funds into maintaining legacy business processes<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n