🧠 Is AI a Tool or a Teammate? — with Phanish Puranam, Professor of Strategy & Organisation Design, INSEAD {Replay} - Making Data Simple | Lyssna här

ICYMI — revisiting one of our most useful conversations on what AI actually does to the shape of an organization.

How do we make organizations not just run — but run intelligently?

Phanish Puranam, the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD, joins Al Martin to explore where organizational science meets artificial intelligence. Phanish studies how intelligent algorithms show up inside organizations in three distinct roles — as tools, as teammates, and as templates for organizing itself — and what actually changes when they do.

We get into the research, real use cases, the pitfalls most companies walk straight into, and a contrarian argument that generating bad ideas fast may be one of the most underrated engines of innovation.

Since this conversation aired, Phanish published re-Humanize: How to Build Human-Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms — the natural next step if this episode lands for you.

Chapters

01:50 – Meet Phanish Puranam
03:36 – Organizational Design
08:39 – Where is Org Design Today
12:41 – A Research Example
15:59 – Technologies as Tools & Teammates
17:54 – A Real Use Case Example
20:30 – The Metaverse, Eliminate Bad Ideas Fast
21:28 – Pitfalls
23:30 – Use Case Deep Dive
30:06 – The Power Structure

Connect with Phanish Puranam

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/phanishpuranam
INSEAD Profile: insead.edu/faculty/phanish-puranam
Book: re-Humanize: How to Build Human-Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms

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