Forget Use Cases: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Business Value - with Jack Nugent

Everybody is hunting for AI use cases. What if "use case" is the wrong question to be asking? Alastair McDermott talks to Jack Nugent of Tradavex, a consultancy that sits between the commodity markets and the technology being sold into them. Nugent's argument is that companies chasing quick wins and cost cuts are solving a much smaller problem than the one in front of them. Recorded July 2024. They get into: - Why "use cases" is a lazy term, and what replaces it - The data your business could have but does not yet collect - The two-hundred-employee thought experiment: do you cut, or do you arm them? - Why the value sits in your own data rather than in the model everyone can rent - Whether shipping is actually innovative, and what the inefficiency paradox says about that Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts.