[full disclosure: none of the mentioned products or services below are endorsements, and Curtis holds no positions in any of them. They are simply some of his favorite current goings on.]
Enterprise Innovation
- Corporates pulling back, they feel safety is in horizon one (H1) near term ROI. More sound analysis from the folks at InnovationLeader here as well.
- GenAI here to stay, Tom Davenport of Babson College did interviews with 300 corporate chief data officers. striking that 6% have already put genAI powered use cases into production, and 80% of their developers are testing/experimenting
- 6% as early adopters at AI pace means the exponential spike of the S-curve of adoption will be VERY rapid this year
- Cautionary note to watch for: the come backs from publishers, creators and others suing OpenAI, etc. - a reckoning be coming.
Social Innovation
- re: future of work, org design, applied network science…events I track: NR4W, ONA Summit. Also 'meeting innovation community' which Elise Keith curates
- I hang with the Agitarians on their Slack who go deep and wide on complexity and applied concepts to facilitation and sense-making, etc.
- Particularly excited about the renewed possibilities for collective intelligence gathering, v.20, or maybe 3.0? (e.g., Louis Rosenberg's unanimous.ai and their new Thinkscape)
Startup Land
- There has been a big pull back of Venture capital, free money is over
- exceptions; AI and related, (in a gold rush, sell shovels) plus biotech and security sectors
- Plus, no end of money for extending life (boomer'itis)
- gene editing CRISPR, personalized medicine, etc
- Trend: rise of "profit sharing" over "equity sharing"