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The very first organizational adoption of AI steps ... your experience!
All good questions. As you know Beth_Kanter, I recently posed a question to this community regarding these very concerns that someone in our organisation expressed. I will say that some of the responses to that post I shared with her and it seemed to help. I sincerely thank the community for that.
The rapid pace of change is something that no one has really brought up but admittedly, is something that I personally am concerned with. How do I keep up to ensure that I can keep our organisation ahead....or only slightly behind?! As an IT Director, I have so much on my plate as it is -- not a complaint, just a fact -- that I find it difficult to stay on top of it...and I am unbelievably keen to do so out of interest and for...survival.
Another thing that can get added to this list is the avalanche of resources around AI: awareness, literacy, usage, programming, not to mention the sheer number of AI tools (which ones does my organisation need?) the list goes on and on. Where exactly does one start with all these resources? And there are more disseminated every day, if not every hour it seems.
And finally, another concern (aka, complaint): crikey, everybody has AI and they are all too happy to tell us they have it, which begs yet another question: what are they calling AI really? Some of what I have seen has existed for a long time, but now is being touted as AI.
A bit of a rant, but some legitimate questions there.
Thanks for your thoughtful reflection. And, I hear you about the pace of change and challenge of keeping on top of technology. Keeping up could be a full-time job in and of itself and we all have other work we do.
I have developed some simple but efficient systems for personal knowledge management so I can spend an hour per week "keeping up."First there is input - finding and curating what to read. I've identified a small number of people on LinkedIn and newsletters who follow the tech sector very closely and I follow them. I also participate in few online communities like this one where I can ask questions or read topics of interest. When I find something that I might want to read later, I pop the URL into my note taking app.
I set aside 30-60 minutes a week to read links and articles that I've captured in my note-taking app. (Or you could just use a word document) For process, I do a quick scan and then zero in on the most important ones for a closer read and discard the rest. Knowing that I don't have to save or read everything helps me reduce the stress of FOMO. After I've been tracking a topic for a while, I read articles to see if there is a new information or view on something and just read and capture that.
I also use note-taking apps to capture what I want to refer back to and have the notes organized by topic. Because as part of my work I do a lot of training, I might create https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bcz5lkUsvgEnH85JflfDIRHLs26RwMiYxyWu_ECjHH0/edit based on my notes to share during a training.I've found that having personal knowledge management helps me keep up without it being a time suck. The hard part of carving out 30-60 minutes a week for learning when there is so much one's to do list, but I tell myself I'll do better quality work if I invest in continuous learning.
And sometimes, so weeks are really busy with other stuff, but I give myself permission to have "JOMO" joy of missing out and if there is something really important, it will surface again.
