Wow! A very late Happy Friday! I know that ~170 of you were waiting by your email for the weekly “Hard Pill To Swallow” update and I’m sorry I disappointed you 😂.
I am a huge fan of dynamic team sharing within and across the organization, but what I am not a fan of are steering committees without:
(a) knowledgeable people on the committee to help move project teams along and
(b) any decision-making power to help move project teams along and
(c) _____feel_free_to_rant_and_send____me__more
Now for a small excerpt teaser:
“I still remember when I was asked to lead a steering committee on AI. While indeed I have spoken about AI on conference stages, I never pretended that I can fully spell the word 😂, but more importantly the numerous technologies that encompass this beast of a buzzword. I quickly declined to lead, but out of sheer curiosity decided to join the committee. I show up to a meeting with about 15 senior leaders and at first stayed really quiet.
“Lets define what AI is”
“Lets put a framework on how we approach AI in the company”
“Lets do an inventory of AI projects”.
I decided to ask a very simple question on why we are doing this, but also remind people in the room that there are brilliant individuals in the company that are already using advanced techniques in drug discovery, supply chain optimization and many more and a community approach of expertise would work best. I later found out that the main reason of this committee was to react to a large vendor that has been making their way through the organization selling into multitude of business units and teams directly without oversight. Great reason for a committee :)”
Have anecdotes on positive committee experiences please chime in as well..
ps.. image source: http://florida4h.org/4-hu-university-committee/
Till Next Week,
😁 majority of the Pharma execs speaking about AI haven’t coded/tried a single line of code in their professional career. But, sure, you can lead AI with powerpoints, right?