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How to Think Strategically about Work after Automation

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate

Turn time saved with AI into impactful business decisions

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Leverage AI tools to save time and focus on more meaningful responsibilities
  • Recognize and pursue projects or tasks that have a greater potential to drive results and contribute to your organization’s strategic goals
  • Align your daily activities with broader company objectives to directly support measurable business results
  • Adopt a mindset that considers how your work can create significant, positive change within the organization

Course description

When AI and automation enable you to delegate repetitive and manual tasks, what do you do with the time you gain? Do you simply fill it with more tasks, or do you pivot toward high-value opportunities that drive organizational success? In this course, Sujatha Das provides you with a repeatable framework for identifying and capturing real strategic opportunities.

You’ll learn to shift your mindset from “doing work” to “creating value” using the AIM model and the SCOPE thinking framework. You’ll learn how to intentionally reinvest the time saved by AI into understanding your business context at a deeper level and improving existing systems. By the time you’re through, you’ll have a 30-minute strategic thinking ritual to ensure that your shift to impact-oriented work becomes a permanent part of your professional practice.

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re an individual contributor who plays a key role in delivering results and supporting day-to-day operations within your team or department.
  • You work in an organization where the adoption of AI tools and technologies is reshaping workflows, productivity, and expectations.
  • You want to leverage AI to help you work more strategically, create value, and connect your efforts to broader business outcomes.

Prerequisites

  • Basic familiarity with AI tools and technologies commonly used in the workplace

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

AI and the changing landscape of execution (55 minutes)

  • Presentation: The shift from doing work to creating value; the four levels of work; using AI to create strategic space; the AIM model
  • Q&A
  • Break

Identifying strategic opportunities as an individual contributor (55 minutes)

  • Presentation: The SCOPE thinking framework; transforming stakeholder experiences through AI; challenging the status quo; identifying strategic improvement opportunities and business impacts; leveraging intelligent automation, harnessing data advantage, collaboration with teams, tools, and ecosystems; practicing rapid experimentation
  • Q&A
  • Break

Strategic use of AI-saved time at Acme Corp. (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Case study of a midsize software company and its use of AI-driven automation to handle repetitive software testing; how the company’s teams filled the time saved by automation
  • Group discussion: How did Acme Corp ensure freed time was used strategically?; What impact did focusing on business context and system improvement have on the organization?; What inefficiencies in your own workplace could benefit from similar attention?

The strategic use of freed time (35 minutes)

  • Presentation: Learning business context; improving systems; innovations; collaboration
  • Hands-on exercise: Reflect on a small inefficiency you’ve noticed in your daily work (e.g., a repetitive task, unclear process, or communication delay); jot down your thoughts and share your inefficiency in chat
  • Group discussion: Which inefficiency, if fixed, would have the biggest positive impact on a team’s productivity, and why?

The weekly strategic habit (20 minutes)

  • Presentation: A 30-minute strategic thinking ritual
  • Hands-on exercise: Come up with strategic thinking scenarios using the above model
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • Sujatha Das

    Sujatha Das is the global head of learning and organizational development for Tavant, an IT products and services and consulting firm. A lifelong learner with almost 30 years of experience working in strategic and tactical leadership and training and organizational learning, she has conceptualized, designed, and delivered many leadership programs, workshops, and webinars and is adept at helping people thrive during disruption and uncertainty.

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Skills covered

  • Agile
  • Strategic Thinking