AI Is Rewiring Organizations — McGrath, Osterwalder, Amla & Sheikh

About this episode

A panel discussion on the misapplication of AI in organizations and insights from leading experts on innovation and strategy.

One developer. Six months. An $80 million sale to Wix. That's not the future of work — it's already here. In this special panel from the Kyndryl Institute and The Innovation Show, host Aidan McCullen brings together four of the world's sharpest minds on strategy, innovation and disruption to explain why most leaders are using AI completely wrong — and what to do instead. Rita McGrath (Columbia, author of The Entrepreneurial Mindset and originator of "transient advantage"), Alexander Osterwalder (creator of the Business Model Canvas, CEO of Strategyzer), Ismail Amla (SVP at Kyndryl, author of From Incremental to Exponential) and Usman Sheikh (author of Frame Break, MD of High Output Ventures) map how work, value and power are being redrawn. In this conversation, the panel reveals: Why painting over a rusty gate explains how most companies are misusing AI How a single developer sold an $80 million company to Wix after six months of solo work What Jensen Huang does every Sunday night to stay connected to NVIDIA's front line Why Bayer put its whole workforce on 90-day cycles — and how it kills office politics The "verification bottleneck" that quietly cancels out every speed gain…

People in this episode

Host: Aidan McCullen

Guests: Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Ismail Amla, Usman Sheikh

Topics covered

• AI in organizations
• innovation
• business strategy
• disruption
• future of work

Keywords

• AI
• business strategy
• innovation
• disruption
• future of work
• organizational change
• value creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kyndryl Institute, Wix, NVIDIA, Bayer, Toss

Books & works: The Entrepreneurial Mindset, From Incremental to Exponential, Frame Break, Business Model Canvas

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