Inside the Strategy Room

240. Improving strategy with AI

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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Bruce Delteil

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Andrea Tricoli

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Quick takeaways

Generative AI significantly enhances hypothesis formulation in strategic planning by enabling rapid idea generation and unconventional solution exploration.

Understanding the distinct roles of AI in strategy, such as thought partners and simulators, is crucial for optimizing strategic decision-making.

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Harnessing AI for Hypothesis Development

Artificial intelligence can significantly enhance the process of formulating hypotheses in strategic planning. By leveraging AI tools, strategists can rapidly generate and validate various hypotheses, allowing more time for discussions and creative thinking. This shift not only accelerates the strategy development phase but also redefines traditional methods by enabling teams to explore unconventional solutions. Additionally, understanding the AI's role and capabilities is essential for strategists to maximize its potential in addressing strategic challenges.

Intro

2min

Navigating Strategy: From Definition to Execution

5min

AI in Strategic Planning

10min

Navigating Confidentiality in AI-Driven M&A Strategies

2min

AI in Strategic Market Analysis

7min

Integrating AI in Banking Strategy

15min

A key challenge to developing corporate strategy is moving quickly enough with the right insights to gain and maintain a competitive edge. Generative AI can help with this, as our guests this week describe.In this episode, we talk with three strategy experts about their research into using gen AI to help develop corporate strategy and the successes and challenges they encountered.

Bruce Delteil is the managing partner of our Vietnam office and leads our Strategy Practice in Asia. He serves clients on all aspects of strategy development, including scenario planning, visioning, war games, and the impact of gen AI. Antoine Montard is our Strategy Practice director of client capabilities based in Lisbon. He leads our Strategy, Research, and Insight Center and helps develop novel approaches for strategy, builds capabilities of teams and clients, and serves as a strategy expert on client projects. Andrea Tricoli is an associate partner in our Strategy and Corporate Finance Practice based in London. He leads our initiative to apply generative AI to our Strategy Method. He serves organizations on how to use analytics and AI to drive better decision-making, especially across the finance and strategy functions.

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