Inside the Strategy Room

240. Improving strategy with AI

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Feb 27, 2025
Guests Bruce Delteil, Antoine Montard, and Andrea Tricoli bring their expertise in strategy and AI to the forefront. They explore how generative AI can revolutionize corporate strategy formulation, offering insights into its roles in research, risk assessment, and market analysis. The discussion includes real-world applications, like AI enhancing a financial services firm's expansion into Vietnam. They also tackle challenges in M&A strategies, emphasizing the delicate balance between AI efficiency and human oversight for successful decision-making.
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Defining Strategy

  • Strategy is a set of coherent, hard-to-reverse choices made in the face of uncertainty.
  • Its goal is to create and capture economic value, moving a company to the top of the 'power curve'.
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The Strategy Method

  • McKinsey's 'strategy method' involves three stages: designing the strategy, mobilizing for execution, and supporting performance/adaptation.
  • This method emphasizes empowerment, resource allocation, and continuous testing of assumptions.
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GenAI Roles in Strategy

  • Generative AI can play five roles in strategy: researcher, interpreter, thought partner, simulator, and communicator.
  • These roles assist in different stages, from gathering data to communicating the strategy.
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