Picking the right products
This page is part of The Workplace AI Strategy Guide
This page is part of a step-by-step guide to Workplace AI strategy, which I'm currently in the process of writing. I'm creating it like an interactive online book. The full table of contents is on the left (or use the menu if you're on a mobile device).
What's this guide all about? Check out the intro or full table of contents.
Want to stay updated when this guide is updated or things are added? There's an RSS feed specifically for strategy guide content. RSS feed for guide updates .
This page is incomplete!
This page is part of my step-by-step guide to Workplace AI, which I'm in the process of writing. I'm doing it in the open, which allows people to see it and provide feedback early. However many of the pages are just initial brain dumps, bullets, random notes, and/or incomplete.
There's an overview of what I'm trying to accomplish on the "What is this site about?" page.
Want to stay updated pages get major updates or things are added? I have a news feed specifically for guide content here: RSS feed for guide updates .
—Brian (July 2024)
- Initial steps for exploring AI solutions
- Criteria for assessing the viability of AI tools
- Guidelines and policies for using personal AI tools at work
- What AIs can the company provide?
- Can you create a list of company-approved AI tools and platforms?
- How employees access and use these tools
- Build versus buy
- Do you need to hire AI experts?
- AI built into every product you have, versus specific AI projects
- Emerging technologies and trends
Initial steps for exploring AI solutions
“Focus on high value areas with clear paths to success.” hahaha just kidding! That’s the nonsense you read on the internet (which is probably LLM-generated slop).
Look at what’s available. What are your current vendors offering? That’s your baseline. Microsoft Copilot? Google’s Whatever-It’s-Called-This-Week?
Lots and lots of solutions looking for problems. This can be partly you trying to figure out what your pain points are which you’d like to solve, and part shopping around to see what’s out there and what might be valuable for you.
Take the sam altman advice of making everything you do get “better” with better GPTs, don’t try to compete against it.
Also, you are not Sam Altman.