MOST BUSINESS LEADERS perch on Burning Platforms, but don't know it yet. Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) capability is advancing exponentially. Learn what it will take for Leadership to gain a deep sense of the opportunities and threats Generative AI poses to the way the organization works — and to their own jobs.

1. Leadership
Challenge: AI and
the Coming Wave
How to Get Buy-in from Senior
Management for the Industry Shift
to AI
Copyright 2023 William Dodson

2. Burning Platforms
and Generative AI
01
Leadership confronted by major
disruption to industry
02
The existential threat AI poses
businesses
03
You can run but you can't hide
from Generative AI
04
Leaders need hands-on
experience with Gen AI
05
Knowledge and experience with
Gen AI will reduce business risk
Table of contents
Change or Be Burned
Alive
The AI Wave and
Burning Platforms
2024 Planning:
Generative AI
Workshop
Mitigating Risks:
Lessons from
Fukushima

3. ● Leaders often unaware of their "Burning
Platforms"
● Generative AI advancing exponentially,
usurping leadership roles
● Exponential growth challenges traditional
understanding
● Prediction: AI may take over significant
management responsibilities
Burning Platforms and Generative AI

4. ● Digital transformations challenging,
especially for business leaders
● Leadership resistance to change requires
key driver: the Burning Platform
● Four levers of change: Leverage,
Environment, Narrative, Simpatico
● Leadership by example crucial for
successful organizational change
Change or Be Burned Alive

5. ● AI's workplace impact likened to a tsunami
● Leaders metaphorically on a Burning
Platform like Fukushima
● Burning Platforms align management to
imminent change
● Urgency for planning AI adaptation in
organizations
The AI Wave and Burning Platforms

6. ● Top priority: Workshop for executives on AI
tools
● Workshop importance over one-hour
presentation
● Demo of Gen AI tools with hands-on experience
● Walkthrough of implications, effects, and case
studies
2024 Planning: Generative AI Workshop

7. ● Recognize vulnerability and need for AI
adaptation
● Avoid complacency in maintaining the status
quo
● Proactive planning for inevitable AI disruption
● Lessons from Fukushima: urgency and
proactive leadership
Mitigating Risks and Lessons from Fukushima

8. Thank you
William Dodson
Seattle, Washington USA
Digital Transformation Communications & Change Management
Evangelist, PROSCI (tm)
Managing Editor, Cosimo Publishing, LLC
Former Organizational Change Management senior consultant for:
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, BearingPoint, Computer Sciences Corporation,
and Sogeti (a division of Cap Gemini).
Contact: wim@cosimopublishing.com