After our recent episodes about how AI will change design, we thought it was time to hear about how AI is changing business. Our guest is Lisa Weaver-Lambert, the author of The AI Value Playbook: How to make AI work in the real world. She interviewed the leaders of 35 businesses who were early adopters of AI to define where it delivers the most value and how they’ve had to shift their strategies.

This is episode 22 and the author of The AI Value Playbook will be sharing:

➤ First-hand lessons from executives about how AI delivers value

➤ The characteristics of a successful or poor AI strategy

➤ Why some businesses and structures are better set up for success

➤ Challenges legacy orgs face incorporating AI and getting value

➤ The future of jobs in a world that will be changed by AI

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Lisa is a published author on AI, specialising in advising private equity firms on due diligence and value creation. She serves on the Advisory Board of Lumenalta, a custom software development company. With experience in capital markets, working at Microsoft, and Accenture, she has a proven track record of partnering with businesses to develop operational improvement with data and AI strategies and drive value across various sectors. In addition, she has held executive line management positions working with some of the world’s best-known brands and served on various boards, earning her recognition as a leading woman in technology. Recognising the transformative potential of AI, Lisa’s mission is to equip non-technical leaders with the knowledge and confidence to leverage AI for their organisations. Her recent book, "The AI Value Playbook," provides an essential handbook for non-technical business leaders to quickly formulate a perspective on how to leverage AI.

Follow her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-weaver-lambert-9568912/

Book overview: 

The AI Value Playbook draws on conversations and case studies with leading practitioners who share their first-hand experiences successfully driving AI value and pathways for progress. The result is an essential handbook for non-technical business leaders to quickly formulate a perspective on how to leverage AI.

• ➤ Understand machine learning and generative AI terminology, concepts, and the AI technology stack.

  
  



• ➤ Learn from diverse real-world case studies narrated by business leaders in their own voice. 

  
  

➤ Apply a value-driven approach to AI applications across multiple business sectors.

Find the book on Amazon and other retailers: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Lisa-Weaver-Lambert/dp/1835461751

This episode was hosted by:

Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Head of product strategy, PH1 Research) 

⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ 

Brittany Hobbs (VP Insights, Huge) 

⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/⁠