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6Sense Buyer Experience Report 2024

The 6Sense Buyer Experience Report surveyed over 2500 buyers and will make you rethink how you approach your go to market strategy.

In this post I pull out some of the key stats and suggest ways to revisit your top of funnel activities.

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AI, sand castles and company building

AI is like the incoming tide, advancing on the SaaS sandcastle you’ve built on the beach.

Now’s the time, if you haven’t already, to consider what a post-SaaS business looks like, removing the UI and just giving your customers the answers to their questions.

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Glean - The Work AI Platform

Glean provides a horizontal AI platform for your employees - providing centralised access to knowledge, data and processes across all of your enterprise systems.

In this article I take a look at the platform and when how you can determine if its valuable for your organisation.

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OpenAI - Finance Use Cases

The finance team is one of the slowest adopters of AI in many organisations.

In a recent webinar the Financial Controller at OpenAI walked through specific examples of how their team are using AI to accelerate and improve their work.

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ICONIQ - State of AI report

ICONIQ Capital's State of AI 2024 report has just dropped with insights around AI budgets, ROI, key use cases, model adoption and function use cases.

Read my summary and get access to the full report here.

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Using AI in B2B Sales - Gartner

Gartner prisms show AI use cases across two dimensions - business value and feasibility.

In this prism they look at AI use cases in B2B sales including sales forecasting, territory optimisation and guided conversations.

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AI in practice - Olympics Daily Recap

NBCUniversal developed an AI powered Olympic Daily Recap featuring personalised clips and an AI synthesised commentary.

It provides a great example of using the knowledge and data you have access to to create new and improved value propositions for your customers.

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AI for non-technical CXOs - free email course

Join this free 15 day email course helping non-technical CxOs understand the implications of AI for their businesses.

You'll learn about AI without getting bogged down in technical jargon - focusing on what to do, how to hire, and how to set your business up for the AI future.

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SaaS and AI - from trains to travel passes

AI is a multi-model world where companies will use multiple models across different use cases.

This differs from SaaS where you picked one platform for each use case.

Here's a simple image I use to differentiate the two concepts.

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How to bring buyer personas to life

Buyer personas help your marketers and sellers to understand the world your buyers live in and the challenges they face.

In this article I suggest five ways you can bring these personas to life so that your teams truly internalise the work you've created and can use it in their outreach and messaging.

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How to run great customer interviews

Once at scale, too few companies spend time really listening to their customers and understanding their world, their pain and how they make decisions on where to spend their hard won money.

In this article I'll walk you through the Switch Interview process and provide you with an easy template to make your own.

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What is the role of a fractional Chief AI Officer?

As CEOs seek to define their AI strategy they are increasingly looking to outside help to support them.

In this article I explore the role of a Chief AI Officer, why a fractional CAIO can bring diverse perspectives an internal hire would miss, and how to start measuring the success of your AI strategy.

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Thinking outside the AI box

As more of use rely on LLMs to complement our daily work - do we risk becoming 'average' as the results we receive all rely on the same few foundation models?

In this article I suggest that while AI is a helpful tool to level all of us up, it is human creativity that will be required to push into knowing what we don't know and providing solutions.

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AI-enabled org charts - from pyramids to diamonds

AI will change the structure of a business from the typical bottom heavy pyramid, to a more middle-heavy diamond.

CxO's then have a choice about whether to claim those efficiencies as higher margin, or redeploy them to grow faster.

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How to create business value with AI

AI is only valuable when you connect it to your core business processes. In four images I’ll walk you through how to think about creating business value with AI in your organisation.

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