AI Innovation Lab. Here's How.
The AI Innovation Lab operates on a structure grounded in Design Thinking and the Working Genius frameworks. It's a peer-driven cohort where individuals collaborate on projects beneficial to their companies, working alongside other professionals in their industry. The lab includes monthly facilitated workshops and weekly asynchronous work. A account manager is on hand to assist in gathering, organizing, and synthesizing information from the entire team, ensuring a cohesive and productive working environment.
The AI Innovation Lab Structure
Team Synthesis
Assess and train the team for collaborative success.
Assembling the team with intention is key. We employ our proprietary AI Attitude Assessment (AIAI) to establish a baseline understanding of team attitudes toward risk, technical acumen, openness, and motivation. Additionally, we train the team in the Working Genius framework, a validated methodology that bolsters collaboration and fuels innovation. These assessments and frameworks are designed to ensure that your AI lab team can collaborate efficiently, innovating and implementing valuable solutions for their organizations.
Wonder. Define.
Identify Opportunities, set goals and define objectives.
Begin by pinpointing and aligning your business needs with clear, strategic objectives. By identifying where AI can make the biggest impact, we set the stage for a technology-driven transformation that resonates with your core business goals. This crucial first step ensures that your foray into AI is not just about embracing cutting-edge technology but about driving real value and growth in line with your overarching vision.
Ideation
Generating innovative and practical ideas to solve problems and create value with AI.
After identifying opportunities and defining objectives, the team engages in both independent and collaborative efforts to generate actionable ideas and explore practical tools and technologies. This approach facilitates a productive exchange of insights and fosters the discovery of viable solutions.
Discernment
Evaluating and improving the best ideas.
By harnessing a cross-functional team of colleagues, each bringing unique skills and expertise, the innovation lab is poised to generate a multitude of ideas. In this phase, we'll engage in evaluating, prioritizing, and selecting the most promising ideas for further exploration, prototyping, and testing. This process ensures a focused approach towards innovation and practical application.
Galvanizing
Spreading enthusisam and ralling the organization to embrace AI innovation.
Introducing AI innovation inherently brings disruption throughout an organization. It can potentially transform corporate culture and fundamentally change work processes, customer service, and leadership styles. Galvanizing the organization is a crucial yet frequently overlooked aspect of the success of an innovation project. This step is essential to ensure alignment, get support and buy-in, and foster acceptance of transformative changes.
Prototyping
Explore ideas with less risk by creating prototypes.
Once the lab team has selected from a vast array of promising ideas and rallied support, they are primed to develop prototypes and initiate pilot experiments. The prototyping process further refines and improves these ideas, creating tangible methods to gather feedback and test assumptions. This stage is vital for transforming abstract concepts into practical, testable solutions.
Test and Plan
Test prototypes and plan next actions.
When the lab team has selected from a vast array of promising ideas and rallied support, they are primed to develop prototypes and initiate pilot experiments. The prototyping process further refines and improves these ideas, creating tangible methods to gather feedback and test assumptions. This stage is vital for transforming abstract concepts into practical, testable solutions.
Almost Daily
As part of the program, your Lab manager produces a regular, almost daily, newsletter that combines general AI news and education with content and ideas gathered from you team.