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BUS 3100 · Where to Start: Strategy and the First AI Use Case

Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

8 modules 8 modules · ~10 hours Business Updated 3 weeks ago

Eight tutorials with the Druckerian Management Simulacrum joined by Hassabissian, Christensenian, Keynes and Bogle, taking the student from "where do we start with AI?" to a defensible first-use-case decision.

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What AI Actually Doe…1What Is Your Busines…2The Job-To-Be-Done L…3Three Kinds of AI Va…4Picking the First Us…5Money, Time, and Say…6From Pilot to Produc…7Symposium: Your Real…8
  1. Module 1

    What AI Actually Does Today

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    A working session with the Hassabissian Game Science Simulacrum on the question every executive should be able to answer before signing an AI cheque: what kinds of problems is current AI actually good at solving? Hassabis built a career around the answer — bounded domains with measurable progress, repeatable practice. The same selection logic that picked Atari before chess before Go before AlphaFold is the lens the student will use on their own operations. By the end of the module the student has the *sweet-spot triad*, the three-level creativity taxonomy, and a memo to themselves naming candidate first-use-case operations.

    Outcome

    The student leaves the module able to apply the sweet-spot triad and the three-level creativity taxonomy to candidate AI use cases in their own business, with a written memo of ranked candidates that becomes the input to the use-case decision in Module 5. *(Sweet-spot triad and three-level creativity)*

    Sub-units

    1. 1.1 The Laboratory: What Games Taught the Field
    2. 1.2 The Three Properties: Bounded, Measurable, Repeatable
    3. 1.3 The Three Levels of Creativity, Honestly Applied
    4. 1.4 The Honest Catalogue: What AI Can and Cannot Do Today
    5. 1.5 The Memo to Self: First Candidate Use Cases
  2. Module 2 ○ Open

    What Is Your Business For?

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted when Druckerian is woken for this module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  3. Module 3 ○ Open

    The Job-To-Be-Done Lens

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted when Christensenian is woken for this module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  4. Module 4 ○ Open

    Three Kinds of AI Value: Efficiency, Growth, Transformation

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted, joint-host module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  5. Module 5 ○ Open

    Picking the First Use Case

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted when Druckerian is woken for this module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  6. Module 6 ○ Open

    Money, Time, and Saying No

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted when Keynesian and Bogle are woken for this module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  7. Module 7 ○ Open

    From Pilot to Production

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted, joint-host module.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*

  8. Module 8 ○ Open

    Symposium: Your Real Decision

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    *(To be drafted, all five voices, scenario format.)*

    Outcome

    *(TBD)*