
I was showing a client what can be done with AI.
I showed him how easy it is now, compared to 20 years ago when I first started my business helping business owners streamline their operations.
Twenty years ago, it would take me 3-4 hours offsite to draft procedures for every hour I spent onsite.
These days with the help of AI, I can get a draft procedure is less than 15 minutes.
That saves me and the client.
A few days later he came back to me and asked if “that thing” I showed him could analyse data.
“Let’s find out.”
We trialled a pdf which didn’t work so well.
We trialled a single tab from an excel spreadsheet and gave it specific instructions for what we wanted analysed, including suggestions for categories of expenses plus a total for the number of items and the amount spent.
Amazingly, we had all the information we wanted within about 30 minutes of trial and error.
What we found in 30 minutes could save hours and hours of painstaking data analysis, not to mention eye strain.
We were both amazed and thrilled and excited at what we could do.
He almost skipped out the door as he headed home.
If you’re not using AI you’re going to get left behind.
If you’re not using AI, your competitors are—and they’re delivering better outcomes, faster, at a sharper price. And no, AI won’t make you dumber. It makes you more strategic and creative because it rewards better questions.
We didn’t know if what we wanted could be done. We took the attitude of playing with it.
Here’s your challenge for this week:
Identify one thing you could potentially get AI to do for you and play with it. Have fun.
- It could be data analysis.
- It could be writing copy for a Facebook ad.
- It could be creating a procedure.
- It could be as simple as using a recording and transcription service such as Otter.ai or screen capture your procedures using Loom.com
You might be surprised at how much help you can get and how much smarter you can become.
Let me know what you find.
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