Workday Podcasts Making Enterprise AI Work for Your Business - Future of Work Podcast
Aug 26, 2025
Logan Franey is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for AI at Workday and the author of the ebook, Critical Success Factors of Enterprise AI. In this engaging discussion, he unpacks crucial strategies for AI adoption, focusing on data quality, ethical considerations, and real-world alignment with business problems. Franey highlights the shifting dynamics of human-machine collaboration, emphasizing trust and decision-making. He shares actionable insights on maximizing AI's transformative potential while navigating the complexities and driving responsible implementation.
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AI As A Collaborative Partner
- Enterprise AI is shifting from AI working for us to AI collaborating as a partner on complex tasks.
- Higher-complexity work requires insight, human decision, and coordinated action with AI in the loop.
Prioritize Value And The Right Technique
- Do prioritize value over volume when selecting AI projects and avoid applying AI for AI's sake.
- Do choose the right technique for the problem (e.g., ML for anomaly detection, not generative AI).
Declining AI For Executive Promotions
- A Japanese company asked Logan to use AI to recommend executive promotions and he advised against it.
- He warned this is a high-risk, unethical use case that should not be automated.
