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Master the AI Age:
A Blueprint for Digital Success
Accelerate Your Digital Command
  • Brian Lambert
  • Scott Barghaan
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Welcome to The AI Lead Virtual Book Launch!
People, Process, Information, and Technology are playing a more crucial role of AI Age. As leaders we must navigate the digital economy.
We will discover how The AI Lead empowers you to overcome data drag and achieve digital dominance — win in the AI Age.
So Much Change - So Fast
  • AI adoption is accelerating across industries.
  • The way we work is being redefined.
  • Human-AI collaboration is becoming the new normal.
  • Leaders must adapt to stay competitive.
  • Skills and strategies need continuous evolution.
Domains of AI
Consumer AI
AI that impacts daily life, like search engines and social media recommendations.
Enterprise AI
AI used within organizations for tasks, processes, workflows, and departments HR automation and fraud detection, alerts, remediation.
Foundational AI
Core AI technologies like machine learning and deep learning. Been around for years. Good for tasks.
Fully Realized AI
AI that performs complex tasks across departments and functions autonomously, like driving cars or providing medical diagnoses, or running the HR function.
Take The AI Lead
What got us here, won't get us there:
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AI is a Strategy
A majority of companies are now leveraging AI in some form. It’s no longer just a futuristic concept.
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Human-AI Collaboration is Key
The most successful organizations are recognizing the power of humans and AI working together.
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Leadership Matters
Effective leadership is crucial to navigating this new era of AI-driven decision-making.
What's Required to Lead
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Operationalize Empathy
Accelerate Digital Dominance
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Deploy a Speed Layer
Frameworks for building a faster decision-making engine
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Overcome Data Drag
Understanding the impact of data delays on organizations
Early Acclaim
What Others are Saying
Uday Satapathy, Databricks
"A groundbreaking blueprint for leadership in the AI age. This book doesn't just explain the what - it shows you exactly how to take the lead."
Thaddeus Walsh, Elastic
"This book is a hyper-montage of the 100's of Generative AI conversations I've had over the past year. It had me nodding in agreement throughout."
Anzar Hasan, Wells Fargo
"Lambert's clear engaging style and wealth of real-world examples make The AI Lead an invaluable resource for anyone on their AI Journey."
5 Parts: Accelerate Digital Dominance
1. Accelerate Digital
Accelerating Digital Dominance with AI Leadership
2. Evolve the Organization
Reshape organizations for sustainable AI growth
3. Evolve the Team
Lead teams through AI-driven success.
4. Dominate Data
Harness data to fuel smarter decisions.
5. Unlock Value for Customers
Unlock Machine Learning and Generative AI
Part 1: Accelerate Digital
This part focuses on driving AI leadership. It's about helping leaders move from reactive to proactive, ensuring their organizations are ready to compete in a fast-paced, AI-driven world.
  1. Going Digital
  1. Digital Transformation
  1. Digital Organizations
  1. Digital Roles and Talent
  1. Collective Intelligence
The journey of raw data to wisdom, showing how organizations can extract increasing value at each stage by improving their ability to interpret and act on data.
The Data Value Chain
Part 2: Evolve the Organization
This part is about creating a foundation for sustained growth. It's about transforming outdated processes and business models into more agile and sustainable ones. This section explores how to build organizational resilience and a culture of continuous innovation.
6. Digital Dominance
7. AI Excellence
8. Sustainable Innovation
9. Customer-Centricity
10. Technical Readiness
A comprehensive, 9-layer model that outlines the critical components organizations need to achieve sustainable digital transformation and leadership in the AI age.
Digital Dominance Framework
Part 3: Evolve the Team
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Digital Fluency
Building digital literacy within your team, encouraging them to embrace new technologies and work smarter, not harder.
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AI Empowerment
Equipping teams with the knowledge and skills to leverage AI tools and effectively collaborate with AI models.
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Innovation Culture
Fostering an environment where experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement are embraced.
Case Studies Highlights
Learn from real-world examples of AI-driven transformation.
See how organizations have successfully adopted AI solutions.
Explore the impact of AI on business performance and customer experience.
35+ Case Study Examples
18 Different Industries
Part 4: Dominate Data
Part 4 of The AI Lead focuses on overcoming data drag. It’s about breaking down silos, using real-time insights to drive faster and more
effective actions.
Unlock Insights
Leverage real-time data to gain a competitive edge.
Break Down Silos
Centralize data for efficient analysis.
Part 5: Unlock Value for Customers
This section explores how to use machine learning and generative AI to deliver greater value to customers. It highlights the importance of creating personalized, data-driven experiences that meet evolving customer expectations.
  1. From Data to Action
  1. The Speed Layer
  1. How to Build the Speed Layer
  1. Delivering Strategic Impact
  1. Envisioning an AI-Led future
The Speed Layer Canvas is a design tool for real-time, data-driven decision-making powered by machine-learning and generative AI to enable personalized experiences and instant responses to meet evolving customer expectations.
Workshop: Taking the AI Lead
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Practical Exercises
Identify data drag in your organization.
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Quick Wins
Map out improvements to AI and ML workflows.
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Downloadable Playbook
Tools, Checklists, Diagnostics, and AI Terminology.
This interactive workshop provides practical exercises to help attendees identify and eliminate data drag in their organizations. Participants will map out quick wins and develop their AI roadmap, leveraging The AI Lead and The AI Lead Playbook .
The AI Lead Playbook
#datadrag
Supplement to the book!
Data Literacy
Unlock data literacy in your organization with frameworks that empower everyone to understand, analyze, and use data effectively.
Agile Speed Layer
Create a faster and more flexible approach to data analysis and decision-making with an agile speed layer that provides real-time insights.
Leverage AI
Harness the power of AI to automate tasks, uncover hidden patterns, and make better-informed decisions across your organization.
Key Takeaways and
Next Steps
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Buy the AI Lead Today!
Anywhere books are sold. Please leave a review!
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Get The Playbook
#datadrag to receive the companion guide full of actionable tools.
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Join Upcoming Workshop
Engage in hands-on learning with Digital Command's next AI strategy workshop. Check out www.digitalcommand.co
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Stay Connected
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Fireside Chat: Q&A with Brian Lambert, PhD
Key Questions
Why AI?
What about AI taking my job?
How does AI apply to me?
Audience Interaction
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Closing Remarks & Exclusive Offer
Thank You
A sincere thank you to all our attendees and panelists for making this event a success.
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