Tom Burton and a co-host debate hiring versus AI adoption. Organizations often lack foundational readiness for AI, and jumping in without strategy risks wasted money or organizational damage. The answer depends on having a formal plan first, not just picking between hiring fewer people or reskilling existing staff.
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Do we really need to hire this person or can we do it with AI? And yet, fundamentally, as it talks about in this article, the foundation is not in place to even remotely have an AI centric organization in place. And so you're going to end up with the worst of two worlds, right, where you're not moving forward and hiring to do a job that needs to get done, but you're not set up in a way to actually leverage AI.
I think you're right on about the idea about if you want to take advantage of AI in this setting, you know, maybe I need to hire fewer people, right? Maybe I need to reskill some people. But the idea of trying to. And some of the results out of the survey were surprising to me. And thinking about the idea of how many people do I have now, how could I reduce my head count by 20% with AI? I would suggest, and to your point, right. It really ties those articles together nicely is because from that standpoint is you need to have a strategy. And if you don't have, whether it's the six disciplines that the Harvard Business Review article talks about or it's things that you've put together on your own, if you don't have a strategy of how you're going to use AI, forget about the idea. I mean, the damage you could cause to your organization by saying, oh, I bought one piece of technology or I hired somebody that says they know a lot about ChatGPT or OpenAI, that you're going to start changing your organization, I think that puts you at much more risk.
