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    What’s On My Mind: Transformative Strategy with Generative AI, Part 3 – Competitive Analysis

    I just typed the notes heading in my notebook for this week’s newsletter, transformational AI and competitive strategy and somewhere, some consultant just yelled BINGO. That’s a lot of buzzwords in a sentence.

    Last week we covered what transformation is (changing forms) so we won’t rehash that, save to say that if your competitive analysis process looks the same after applying AI to it, it’s an optimization, not a transformation.

    Part 1: Why Competitive Analysis

    What’s the point of competitive analysis? Many a business book has quoted various leaders as saying that your focus should be on making better products and services, and leave competitors to their own ways. The answer to this really depends on the kind of competitive environment you’re in. If you don’t have significant peer competitors, then competitive analysis is probably not a good use of a ton of resources.

    If you do have a peer competitors – maybe you’re Samsung competing with Apple, or Lao Xiangji competing with KFC, then you very much want to do competitive analysis.

    And all businesses should do it in some capacity, if for no other reason than to be aware of major shifts in the market – especially in what customers want.

    This is the single biggest gap in most competitive analysis today. Most competitive analysis looks at what the companies are doing. That’s not the worst thing in the world, but it doesn’t directly help your business.

    So what should you be paying attention to? Well, before we get to that, let’s review some basic competitive analysis frameworks.

    Part 2: Competitive Analysis Frameworks

    Dust off your B-school books, unless you’re like me and you sold them back to the school at the end of the academic year. Then pretend to dust them off. You probably learned three different competitive analysis frameworks:

    SWOT Analysis

    The favorite of business schools and consulting firms because it’s a beloved 2×2 matrix, a SWOT analysis looks at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. However, almost everyone does this wrong. Nearly every SWOT analysis I’ve read mixes items up in the different categories, or worse, applies it at a larger scope than intended.

    A SWOT analysis is not an industry analysis. Industry analysis doesn’t belong in it. A SWOT analysis is all about comparing you versus ONE other competitor.

    The second major thing many, many people do wrong is mixing up items. The SWOT analysis is really a consulting 2×2 matrix, so there’s two axes. One axis is strengths and weaknesses, the other axis is you and your competitor. Here’s what I mean:

    • Strengths: these are things you’re good at, internal capacities, internal decisions. This is where you are strong, regardless of the competitor.
    • Weaknesses: these are things you’re bad at, internal deficiencies, internal decisions. This is where you are weak, regardless of the competitor.
    • Opportunities: these are the things your competitor is bad at, deficiencies of theirs. These are the weaknesses of your competitor that you can take advantage of.
    • Threats: these are the things your competitor is good at, capacities of theirs. These are the strengths of your competitor that you have to mitigate.

    See it?

    Your strengths are your competitor’s threats. Your threats are your competitor’s strengths.

    Your weaknesses are your competitor’s opportunities. Your opportunities are your competitor’s weaknesses.

    Once you understand this, making a crystal clear SWOT analysis becomes substantially easier.

    “But what about…” is the usual objection, followed by a dozen different scenarios and what-ifs. Those typically don’t belong in a SWOT analysis. Where do they belong? Probably in a Porter’s 5 Forces.

    Porter’s 5 Forces

    Michael Porter’s 1979 5 Forces model, now just called Porter’s 5 Forces, are a big picture look at your industry overall. This is where most of the what-ifs and what-abouts fit.

    The five forces are:

    • Threat of New Entrants: This force analyzes how easily new companies can enter the industry, which can increase competition and reduce profitability. A low barrier to entry means being profitable is harder.
    • Bargaining Power of Suppliers: This examines the influence that suppliers have on pricing and the availability of resources for businesses in the industry. If your supply chain is pegged to wildly inconsistent suppliers, being successful is harder.
    • Bargaining Power of Buyers: This force assesses the ability of customers to negotiate prices down or demand higher quality, impacting industry profitability. If you’re the only game in town, you can name your price. If there’s a different gas station on ever corner and collusion/price fixing is prohibited by law, you’ll be less profitable.
    • Threat of Substitute Products or Services: This force considers the likelihood of customers switching to alternative solutions that meet similar needs, limiting pricing power. If Temu meets your needs, why Amazon?
    • Intensity of Rivalry Among Existing Competitors: This evaluates the level of competition between current players in the industry, which can lead to price wars and reduced margins. The more fierce your competition, the harder it is to be profitable.

    Porter’s 5 forces is a great place to talk about the macro picture of the industry, from startups that are more agile to customers making different purchasing choices.

    The third framework cleans up the remaining what-ifs: PEST.

    PEST Analysis

    PEST is a 4 part framework to look at the biggest possible picture:

    • Political: what’s happening from a political perspective that is impacting your industry overall? This is where stuff like tariffs might fall.
    • Economic: what’s happening from an economic perspective that’s impacting your industry? This is where dynamics like unemployment or stock markets could have an impact.
    • Social: what’s happening in society that could have an impact on your industry? Did you take up or abandon some socially important feature (like DEI) that could make customers want to spend money with a competitor instead of you?
    • Technological: what’s happening in tech that could change your business? From AI to smartphones, there’s no shortage of technological change that can wildly change an industry.

    This mops up the remaining considerations that probably come up in strategy meetings.

    Okay, but how does this help us do competitive analysis better?

    There’s one more dimension we need to consider: the customer.

    Part 3: Voice of the Customer

    This is the missing ingredient in almost every competitive analysis. In many ways, we don’t care about what our competitors are doing, except as it helps us to understand what the customer wants and can get from our competitors that they can’t get from us.

    The challenge for many of us is that voice of the customer is mostly a buzzword, something we give lip service to, but never really spend time on. Why? Because it’s so vast. It’s vast, it’s unstructured, it’s messy, and let’s face it: the axiom that the customer is always right is… flawed. Sometimes the customer’s just an idiot, like the guy demanding a pizza from the drive through line at a Wendy’s. Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

    However, there can be CONSIDERABLE competitive advantage to be found in the voice of the customer. The trick is twofold: getting the data and processing the data.

    That’s where media monitoring, deep research, social listening, and a host of other technologies can be super helpful. These tools can gather up huge amounts of unstructured data, which we can then feed to AI, to develop a voice of the customer.

    There are 14 dimensions to the voice of the customer we could be using:

    Voice of the Customer Chart

    • Advertising and Marketing Reactions
    • Market Research
    • Social Conversations
    • Product/Service Reviews
    • In-Person/Private Messaging
    • Search Intent Data
    • First Party Behavior Data
    • Public Competitor Data
    • Sales Interactions
    • Customer Service
    • User/Owner Groups & Communities
    • Customer Metadata
    • Surveys
    • Synthetic Customers with AI

    You’ll note that these are a mix of internal and external data sources. When it comes to competitive analysis, which is the point of this issue of the newsletter, we want to focus on external data sources so that we can do apples to apples comparisons of data.

    Here’s why: the voice of the customer can be segmented into two parts: the voice of OUR customer, and the voice of our COMPETITOR’S customer.

    Do you see it? Do you see the magic in re-thinking the voice of the customer this way? The customer isn’t an amorphous blob of opinion like a holiday jello fruit salad. We have different classes of customers, and at the broadest level, we have our customers, and our competitor has their customers.

    Part 4: VOC/SWOT

    Let’s get to the magic of this. If we can gather the voice of our customer, and we can gather the voice of our competitor’s customer, then we can use generative AI to process all that data (probably in batches for large datasets) and boil them down into four categories:

    • What our customers like about us
    • What our customers don’t like about us
    • What our competitor’s customers like about them
    • What our competitor’s customers don’t like about them

    This is very clearly a SWOT analysis – what our customers like or don’t like about us is our strengths and weaknesses, but from the customer’s point of view, not ours. We can brag about what we think our strengths and weaknesses are, but those are not the opinions of the people paying the bills.

    And in turn, what our competitor’s customers like and dislike about them are our threats and opportunities. If your competitor’s customers are all complaining about high prices, there’s an opportunity potentially to beat them on price.

    Great. So we understand how things should work. How do we bring this to life? How do we, to fill up on buzzwords, transform our competitive analysis with generative AI?

    Out of the 14 dimensions of the voice of the customer, we’re going to use 2 of them in this example because this is just a demonstration, not a paid project. We’ll use search intent data, which we can get from an SEO tool like AHREFS. And we’ll use Deep Research, from three different Deep Research tools – Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, and Grok Deep Search. We’ll be blending the deep research outputs together, as each one has its own strengthsn and weaknesses.

    Once we have these pieces assembled, we can then prompt the generative AI tool of our choice to help us assemble the VOC/SWOT. For this analysis, I’ll take the perspective of MarketingProfs, as though I worked for MarketingProfs. (I don’t, but I speak frequently at their events)

    Here’s an example prompt which will work best with a reasoning model.

    You’re a management consulting expert in the style of McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. You know competitive analysis, competition, market dynamics, and competitive analysis frameworks like SWOT, Porter’s 5 Forces, Competitive Matrix, PEST/PESTEL, and many others. Today we’ll be assembling a SWOT analysis. Here are the rules you must follow and the desired outputs.

    We will be performing a VOC/SWOT, a special type of SWOT analysis invented by the management consulting firm TrustInsights.ai.

    The companies we are performing the analysis for are:

    • Our client, MarketingProfs B2B Forum
    • Our client’s biggest competitor, Content Marketing World

    You will be given voice of the customer data for our client and their competitor in two formats:

    • Deep research briefing
    • Search intent data

    From this data, you will synthesize and report aloud the following VOC Analysis:

    • What customers like about MarketingProfs B2B Forum, if anything
    • What customers dislike about MarketingProfs B2B Forum, if anything
    • What customers like about Content Marketing World, if anything
    • What customers dislike about Content Marketing World, if anything

    Once you’ve reported aloud all four categories of data from the sources, you will then assemble the VOC/SWOT.

    The VOC/SWOT is a SWOT analysis using voice of the customer data. You’ll build a SWOT analysis with these categories:

    • Strengths: What MarketingProfs B2B Forum customers like about MarketingProfs B2B Forum
      • An analysis as to whether Content Marketing World has strengths or weaknesses for what MarketingProfs B2B Forum is strong in
    • Weaknesses: What MarketingProfs B2B Forum customers dislike abuot MarketingProfs B2B Forum
      • An analysis as to whether Content Marketing World has strengths or weaknesses for what MarketingProfs B2B Forum is weak in
    • Opportunities: What Content Marketing World customers dislike about Content Marketing World customers
      • An analysis as to whether MarketingProfs B2B Forum has strengths or weaknesses for what Content Marketing World is weak in
    • Threats: What Content Marketing World customers like about Content Marketing World customers
      • An analysis as to whether MarketingProfs B2B Forum has strengths or weaknesses for what Content Marketing World is strong in

    Produce the VOC/SWOT after you have produced the VOC Analysis.

    Now, once you’ve got this analysis, this is only the starting point. As with any SWOT analysis, it’s what you do with it afterwards that really matters. What decisions will you make? What actions will you take? How will you overcome your weaknesses and double down on your strengths?

    And it’s not a great leap of imagination to take the same dataset for multiple competitors and build a Porter’s 5 Forces. Or take the news headlines of the day and with your data and your competitor’s data, build a PEST analysis.

    As with all analysis, it’s what you do with it afterwards that really matters, but using generative AI here can dramatically speed up the process to analysis, giving you something to react to and something to think about.

    Part 5: Wrapping Up

    The transformation, to the extent there is one here, is that we’re able to take data at a much larger scale, and from the customer’s point of view, to build competitive analysis. Marketers – and I am very much in this category – spend so much time fixated on what a competitor is doing, not realizing that it’s far more important what our competitor’s customers are doing that really matters.

    If a customer of ours is unhappy with us, we might have a chance to win them back if we’re clear about what our weaknesses are. If a customer of our competitor is unhappy with them, we might have a chance to win them to our side. If we’re so focused on what the competitor is doing, and not what the customer is saying, we’ll miss those opportunities.

    Use generative AI with your data and your competitor data like this, and you’ll find insights faster than ever, giving you more opportunity to take action faster, avoid being blindsided by what customers really want, and stay laser focused on the customer.

    Shameless plug: my company, Trust Insights, does this for companies like yours. If you’re being asked to come up with transformative solutions for your business to grow revenue, and especially if AI is involved, and you’re not sure how, let us help.

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    我刚刚在笔记本中为本周的新闻通讯输入了主题标题：转型 AI 和竞争战略。在某个地方，一位顾问可能会大喊“答对了！”。这句话里包含了太多流行语。

    上周我们探讨了什么是转型（改变形式），所以我们不再赘述。只想说，如果您的竞争分析流程在应用 AI 之后看起来仍然一样，那只是优化，而不是转型。

    第一部分：为何进行竞争分析

    竞争分析的意义何在？许多商业书籍都引用过各种领导者的话，认为您的重点应该放在制造更好的产品和服务上，而让竞争对手走自己的路。这个问题的答案实际上取决于您所处的竞争环境类型。如果您没有重要的同级别竞争对手，那么竞争分析可能不是大量资源的良好用途。

    如果您确实有同级别竞争对手——也许您是与苹果竞争的三星，或是与肯德基竞争的老乡鸡，那么您非常需要进行竞争分析。

    并且所有企业都应该在某种程度上进行竞争分析，哪怕只是为了了解市场的主要变化——尤其是客户想要什么。

    这是当今大多数竞争分析中最大的差距。大多数竞争分析都关注公司在做什么。这并不是世界上最糟糕的事情，但它并不能直接帮助您的业务。

    那么您应该关注什么呢？嗯，在我们讨论这个问题之前，让我们回顾一些基本的竞争分析框架。

    第二部分：竞争分析框架

    翻出您的商学院课本，除非您像我一样在学年末把它们卖回了学校。那就假装翻出它们。您可能学过三种不同的竞争分析框架：

    SWOT 分析

    SWOT 分析是商学院和咨询公司的最爱，因为它是一个受欢迎的 2×2 矩阵，它着眼于优势（Strengths）、劣势（Weaknesses）、机会（Opportunities）和威胁（Threats）。然而，几乎每个人都做错了。我读过的几乎每一份 SWOT 分析都将项目混淆在不同的类别中，或者更糟糕的是，将其应用于比预期更大的范围。

    SWOT 分析不是行业分析。行业分析不属于 SWOT 分析。SWOT 分析完全是关于您与另一个竞争对手的比较。

    许多人常犯的第二个主要错误是混淆项目。SWOT 分析实际上是一个咨询 2×2 矩阵，因此有两个轴。一个轴是优势和劣势，另一个轴是您和您的竞争对手。我的意思是：

    • 优势：这些是您擅长的事情，内部能力，内部决策。这是您的优势所在，与竞争对手无关。
    • 劣势：这些是您不擅长的事情，内部缺陷，内部决策。这是您的弱势所在，与竞争对手无关。
    • 机会：这些是您的竞争对手不擅长的事情，他们的缺陷。这些是您可以利用的竞争对手的劣势。
    • 威胁：这些是您的竞争对手擅长的事情，他们的能力。这些是您必须缓解的竞争对手的优势。

    明白了吗？

    您的优势是您竞争对手的威胁。您的威胁是您竞争对手的优势。

    您的劣势是您竞争对手的机会。您的机会是您竞争对手的劣势。

    一旦您理解了这一点，制作一份清晰明了的 SWOT 分析就会变得容易得多。

    “但是关于……”通常是反对意见，随后是十几个不同的情景和假设。这些通常不属于 SWOT 分析。它们属于哪里？可能在波特五力模型中。

    波特五力模型

    迈克尔·波特 1979 年提出的五力模型，现在简称为波特五力模型，是对您所在行业的整体宏观审视。大多数假设和相关问题都适合在这里讨论。

    这五种力量是：

    • 新进入者的威胁：这种力量分析了新公司进入该行业的容易程度，这可能会加剧竞争并降低盈利能力。进入壁垒低意味着盈利更难。
    • 供应商的议价能力：这考察了供应商对行业内企业定价和资源可用性的影响。如果您的供应链与极不稳定的供应商挂钩，那么成功会更难。
    • 买方的议价能力：这种力量评估了客户压低价格或要求更高质量的能力，从而影响行业盈利能力。如果您是唯一的选择，您可以随意定价。如果每个角落都有不同的加油站，并且法律禁止串通/价格操纵，那么您的盈利能力就会降低。
    • 替代产品或服务的威胁：这种力量考虑了客户转向满足类似需求的替代解决方案的可能性，从而限制了定价权。如果 Temu 满足您的需求，为什么要选择亚马逊？
    • 现有竞争对手之间的竞争强度：这评估了当前行业参与者之间竞争的程度，这可能会导致价格战和利润率下降。您的竞争越激烈，盈利就越难。

    波特五力模型是讨论行业宏观图景的好地方，从更灵活的初创公司到做出不同购买选择的客户。

    第三个框架清理了剩下的假设：PEST 分析。

    PEST 分析

    PEST 是一个四部分框架，用于审视尽可能大的图景：

    • 政治（Political）：从政治角度来看，哪些事件正在发生，并影响着您的整个行业？关税之类的东西可能属于这里。
    • 经济（Economic）：从经济角度来看，哪些事件正在发生，并影响着您的行业？失业或股市等动态可能会产生影响。
    • 社会（Social）：社会上正在发生哪些可能对您的行业产生影响的事情？您是否接受或放弃了一些具有社会重要性的特征（例如 DEI），这可能会使客户想要与竞争对手而不是您花钱？
    • 技术（Technological）：技术领域正在发生哪些可能改变您业务的事情？从 AI 到智能手机，技术变革层出不穷，它们可以极大地改变一个行业。

    这扫清了战略会议中可能出现的剩余考虑因素。

    好的，但这如何帮助我们更好地进行竞争分析呢？

    我们还需要考虑一个维度：客户。

    第三部分：客户之声

    这是几乎所有竞争分析中缺失的要素。在许多方面，我们并不关心竞争对手在做什么，除非它能帮助我们了解客户想要什么，以及他们可以从竞争对手那里获得什么，但无法从我们这里获得。

    我们许多人面临的挑战是，客户之声大多只是一个流行语，我们口头上说说而已，但从未真正花时间去研究。为什么？因为它太广阔了。它广阔、非结构化、混乱，而且让我们面对现实：客户永远是对的这一公理……是有缺陷的。有时客户只是个白痴，就像那个在温蒂餐厅得来速通道要披萨的家伙。先生，这里是温蒂餐厅。

    然而，在客户之声中可以找到相当大的竞争优势。诀窍是双重的：获取数据和处理数据。

    这就是媒体监测、深度研究、社交聆听和许多其他技术可以非常有用的地方。这些工具可以收集大量非结构化数据，然后我们可以将其输入 AI，以开发客户之声。

    我们可以使用客户之声的 14 个维度：

    客户之声图表

    • 广告和营销反应
    • 市场调研
    • 社交对话
    • 产品/服务评论
    • 面对面/私俥
    • 搜索意图数据
    • 第一方行为数据
    • 公开的竞争对手数据
    • 销售互动
    • 客户服务
    • 用户/所有者群体和社区
    • 客户元数据
    • 调查
    • 使用 AI 的合成客户

    您会注意到，这些是内部和外部数据源的混合。当谈到竞争分析时，这正是本期新闻通讯的重点，我们希望专注于外部数据源，以便我们可以对数据进行同类比较。

    原因如下：客户之声可以分为两部分：我们客户的声音和我们竞争对手客户的声音。

    您明白了吗？您是否看到了以这种方式重新思考客户之声的魔力？客户不是像节日果冻水果沙拉那样无定形的意见集合。我们有不同类别的客户，在最广泛的层面上，我们有我们的客户，而我们的竞争对手有他们的客户。

    第四部分：VOC/SWOT

    让我们来了解一下其中的奥妙。如果我们能够收集我们客户的声音，并且我们能够收集我们竞争对手客户的声音，那么我们可以使用生成式 AI 来处理所有这些数据（对于大型数据集，可能分批处理），并将它们归纳为四个类别：

    • 我们的客户喜欢我们什么
    • 我们的客户不喜欢我们什么
    • 我们的竞争对手的客户喜欢他们什么
    • 我们的竞争对手的客户不喜欢他们什么

    这非常清楚地是一个 SWOT 分析——我们的客户喜欢或不喜欢我们什么，是我们的优势和劣势，但从客户的角度来看，而不是从我们的角度来看。我们可以吹嘘我们认为的优势和劣势，但这些不是付账人的意见。

    反过来，我们竞争对手的客户喜欢和不喜欢他们什么，是我们的威胁和机会。如果您的竞争对手的客户都在抱怨价格过高，那么就存在潜在的在价格上击败他们的机会。

    很好。所以我们了解了事情应该如何运作。我们如何将此付诸实践？我们如何用流行语来填充，用生成式 AI 改造我们的竞争分析？

    在客户之声的 14 个维度中，我们将在本示例中使用其中 2 个，因为这只是一个演示，而不是一个付费项目。我们将使用搜索意图数据，我们可以从 AHREFS 等 SEO 工具中获取。我们还将使用深度研究，来自三种不同的深度研究工具——Gemini 深度研究、Perplexity 深度研究和 Grok 深度搜索。我们将把深度研究的输出结果混合在一起，因为每种工具都有其自身的优势和劣势。

    一旦我们组装好这些部分，我们就可以提示我们选择的生成式 AI 工具来帮助我们组装 VOC/SWOT。对于此分析，我将从 MarketingProfs 的角度出发，就好像我为 MarketingProfs 工作一样。（我不是，但我经常在他们的活动中演讲）

    这是一个示例提示，它最适合推理模型。

    您是一位管理咨询专家，风格类似于麦肯锡、贝恩和波士顿咨询集团。您了解竞争分析、竞争、市场动态和竞争分析框架，如 SWOT、波特五力模型、竞争矩阵、PEST/PESTEL 以及许多其他框架。今天我们将组装一份 SWOT 分析。以下是您必须遵循的规则和期望的输出。

    我们将执行 VOC/SWOT，这是一种由管理咨询公司 TrustInsights.ai 发明的特殊类型的 SWOT 分析。

    我们正在为其进行分析的公司是：

    • 我们的客户，MarketingProfs B2B 论坛
    • 我们客户最大的竞争对手，Content Marketing World

    您将获得我们客户及其竞争对手的客户之声数据，格式如下：

    • 深度研究简报
    • 搜索意图数据

    根据这些数据，您将综合并大声报告以下 VOC 分析：

    • 如果有，客户喜欢 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛什么
    • 如果有，客户不喜欢 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛什么
    • 如果有，客户喜欢 Content Marketing World 什么
    • 如果有，客户不喜欢 Content Marketing World 什么

    在您大声报告完来自所有来源的四类数据后，您将组装 VOC/SWOT。

    VOC/SWOT 是使用客户之声数据进行的 SWOT 分析。您将使用以下类别构建 SWOT 分析：

    • 优势：MarketingProfs B2B 论坛的客户喜欢 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛什么
      • 分析 Content Marketing World 在 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛的优势方面是否具有优势或劣势
    • 劣势：MarketingProfs B2B 论坛的客户不喜欢 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛什么
      • 分析 Content Marketing World 在 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛的劣势方面是否具有优势或劣势
    • 机会：Content Marketing World 的客户不喜欢 Content Marketing World 什么
      • 分析 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛在 Content Marketing World 的劣势方面是否具有优势或劣势
    • 威胁：Content Marketing World 的客户喜欢 Content Marketing World 什么
      • 分析 MarketingProfs B2B 论坛在 Content Marketing World 的优势方面是否具有优势或劣势

    在您生成 VOC 分析后，生成 VOC/SWOT。

    现在，一旦您获得了这份分析，这只是一个起点。与任何 SWOT 分析一样，真正重要的是您之后如何利用它。您将做出什么决定？您将采取什么行动？您将如何克服您的劣势并加倍利用您的优势？

    将相同的数据集用于多个竞争对手并构建波特五力模型，或者采用当天的新闻标题以及您和您竞争对手的数据，并构建 PEST 分析，这并不需要太多的想象力。

    与所有分析一样，真正重要的是您之后如何利用它，但是在这里使用生成式 AI 可以极大地加快分析过程，为您提供可以做出反应和思考的东西。

    第五部分：总结

    转型，如果这里有转型的话，那就是我们能够从更大规模的数据中，并从客户的角度出发，构建竞争分析。营销人员——我非常属于这一类——花费大量时间专注于竞争对手在做什么，却没有意识到竞争对手的客户在做什么才更重要。

    如果我们的一位客户对我们不满意，如果我们清楚地了解我们的劣势是什么，我们也许有机会赢回他们。如果我们竞争对手的一位客户对他们不满意，我们也许有机会将他们争取到我们这边。如果我们只专注于竞争对手在做什么，而不是客户在说什么，我们将错过这些机会。

    像这样将生成式 AI 与您的数据和您竞争对手的数据一起使用，您会比以往更快地找到洞察力，从而为您提供更多机会更快地采取行动，避免被客户真正想要的东西蒙蔽双眼，并始终专注于客户。

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    그리고 모든 기업은 시장의 주요 변화, 특히 고객이 원하는 것의 변화를 인지하기 위해서라도 어느 정도는 경쟁 분석을 해야 합니다.

    이것이 오늘날 대부분의 경쟁 분석에서 가장 큰 간극입니다. 대부분의 경쟁 분석은 기업들이 무엇을 하고 있는지에 초점을 맞춥니다. 그것이 최악은 아니지만, 귀사의 비즈니스에 직접적인 도움이 되지는 않습니다.

    그렇다면 무엇에 집중해야 할까요? 그 전에 기본적인 경쟁 분석 프레임워크 몇 가지를 검토해 보겠습니다.

    2부: 경쟁 분석 프레임워크

    경영 대학원 서적을 꺼내 먼지를 털어보세요. 저처럼 학년 말에 학교에 팔아버린 경우가 아니라면 말이죠. 그런 경우라면 먼지를 털어내는 척이라도 해보세요. 아마 세 가지 다른 경쟁 분석 프레임워크를 배웠을 겁니다.

    SWOT 분석

    SWOT 분석은 강점(Strengths), 약점(Weaknesses), 기회(Opportunities), 위협(Threats)을 살펴보는 2×2 매트릭스이기 때문에 경영 대학원과 컨설팅 회사에서 선호합니다. 그러나 거의 모든 사람이 이 분석을 잘못 수행합니다. 제가 읽어본 거의 모든 SWOT 분석은 항목들을 다른 범주에 뒤섞거나, 더 나쁘게는 의도된 범위보다 더 넓은 범위에 적용합니다.

    SWOT 분석은 산업 분석이 아닙니다. 산업 분석은 SWOT 분석에 속하지 않습니다. SWOT 분석은 귀사와 단 하나의 경쟁사만을 비교하는 것입니다.

    두 번째로 많은 사람들이 저지르는 주요 오류는 항목을 혼합하는 것입니다. SWOT 분석은 실제로 컨설팅 2×2 매트릭스이므로 두 개의 축이 있습니다. 하나의 축은 강점과 약점이고, 다른 축은 귀사와 경쟁사입니다. 제 말은 다음과 같습니다.

    • 강점: 귀사가 잘하는 것, 내부 역량, 내부 결정. 경쟁사와 관계없이 귀사가 강한 부분입니다.
    • 약점: 귀사가 못하는 것, 내부 결함, 내부 결정. 경쟁사와 관계없이 귀사가 약한 부분입니다.
    • 기회: 경쟁사가 못하는 것, 경쟁사의 결함. 귀사가 활용할 수 있는 경쟁사의 약점입니다.
    • 위협: 경쟁사가 잘하는 것, 경쟁사의 역량. 귀사가 완화해야 할 경쟁사의 강점입니다.

    이해되시나요?

    귀사의 강점은 경쟁사의 위협입니다. 귀사의 위협은 경쟁사의 강점입니다.

    귀사의 약점은 경쟁사의 기회입니다. 귀사의 기회는 경쟁사의 약점입니다.

    이것을 이해하면 매우 명확한 SWOT 분석을 훨씬 쉽게 만들 수 있습니다.

    “하지만…은요?”는 흔한 반론이며, ꡸ 뒤에 수십 가지의 시나리오와 가정들이 따라옵니다. 그러한 것들은 일반적으로 SWOT 분석에 속하지 않습니다. 그렇다면 어디에 속할까요? 아마도 포터의 5 Forces 모델일 것입니다.

    포터의 5 Forces

    마이클 포터의 1979년 5 Forces 모델은, 현재는 포터의 5 Forces라고 불리며, 산업 전반에 대한 거시적인 시각을 제공합니다. 대부분의 가정과 관련된 질문들은 여기에 해당됩니다.

    5가지 요소는 다음과 같습니다.

    • 신규 진입자의 위협: 이 요소는 새로운 기업이 얼마나 쉽게 산업에 진입할 수 있는지를 분석하며, 이는 경쟁을 심화시키고 수익성을 감소시킬 수 있습니다. 진입 장벽이 낮다는 것은 수익을 내기가 더 어렵다는 것을 의미합니다.
    • 공급자의 교섭력: 이는 산업 내 기업의 가격 결정 및 자원 가용성에 공급자가 미치는 영향력을 검토합니다. 공급망이 매우 불안정한 공급업체에 묶여 있다면 성공하기가 더 어렵습니다.
    • 구매자의 교섭력: 이 요소는 고객이 가격을 낮추거나 더 높은 품질을 요구할 수 있는 능력을 평가하여 산업 수익성에 영향을 미칩니다. 만약 귀사가 유일한 선택지라면 가격을 마음대로 정할 수 있습니다. 하지만 길모퉁이마다 다른 주유소가 있고 담합/가격 담합이 법으로 금지되어 있다면 수익성이 낮아질 것입니다.
    • 대체재 또는 서비스의 위협: 이 요소는 고객이 유사한 요구를 충족하는 대안 솔루션으로 전환할 가능성을 고려하여 가격 결정력을 제한합니다. 만약 Temu가 귀사의 요구를 충족한다면 왜 Amazon을 이용해야 할까요?
    • 기쥴 경쟁자 간의 경쟁 강도: 이는 산업 내 현 경쟁자 간의 경쟁 수준을 평가하며, 가격 전쟁과 마진 감소로 이어질 수 있습니다. 경쟁이 치열할수록 수익을 내기가 더 어렵습니다.

    포터의 5 Forces 모델은 보다 민첩한 스타트업부터 다른 구매 선택을 하는 고객에 이르기까지 산업의 거시적인 그림에 대해 이야기하기에 좋은 장소입니다.

    세 번째 프레임워크는 남은 가정들을 정리합니다: PEST 분석입니다.

    PEST 분석

    PEST는 가능한 가장 큰 그림을 보기 위한 4가지 부분으로 구성된 프레임워크입니다.

    • 정치적(Political): 귀사의 산업 전반에 영향을 미치는 정치적 관점에서 어떤 일이 일어나고 있나요? 관세와 같은 것들이 여기에 해당될 수 있습니다.
    • 경제적(Economic): 귀사의 산업에 영향을 미치는 경제적 관점에서 어떤 일이 일어나고 있나요? 실업률이나 주식 시장과 같은 역학 관계가 영향을 미욠 수 있습니다.
    • 사회적(Social): 귀사의 산업에 영향을 미욠 수 있는 사회에서 어떤 일이 일어나고 있나요? 고객이 귀사가 아닌 경쟁사에 돈을 쓰고 싶어하게 만들 수 있는 사회적으로 중요한 기능(예: DEI)을 채택하거나 포기했나요?
    • 기술적(Technological): 귀사의 비즈니스를 바꿀 수 있는 기술 분야에서 어떤 일이 일어나고 있나요? AI부터 스마트폰까지, 산업을 크게 변화시킬 수 있는 기술 변화는 부족함이 없습니다.

    이것은 전략 회의에서 나올 가능성이 있는 나머지 고려 사항들을 정리합니다.

    좋습니다, 하지만 이것이 경쟁 분석을 더 잘하는 데 어떻게 도움이 될까요?

    우리가 고려해야 할 또 다른 차원이 있습니다: 고객입니다.

    3부: 고객의 목소리

    이것은 거의 모든 경쟁 분석에서 빠져 있는 요소입니다. 여러 면에서, 우리는 경쟁사가 무엇을 하는지에 대해서는 별로 신경 쓰지 않습니다. 단, 그것이 고객이 우리에게서는 얻을 수 없고 경쟁사로부터는 얻을 수 있는 것을 이해하는 데 도움이 되는 경우를 제외하고는 말입니다.

    우리 중 많은 사람들에게 어려운 점은 고객의 목소리가 대부분 유행어, 즉 우리가 립서비스만 하고 결코 시간을 들이지 않는 것이라는 점입니다. 왜 그럴까요? 왜냐하면 그것은 너무 방대하기 때문입니다. 그것은 방대하고, 비정형적이며, 지저분하고, 솔직히 말해서 고객은 항상 옳다는 격언은… 결함이 있습니다. 때로는 고객이 웬디스 드라이브 스루에서 피자를 요구하는 남자처럼 ꡸냼 바보일 때도 있습니다. 손님, 여기는 웬디스입니다.

    하지만 고객의 목소리에서 상당한 경쟁 우위를 찾을 수 있습니다. 비결은 두 가지입니다. 데이터를 얻는 것과 데이터를 처리하는 것입니다.

    바로 여기서 미디어 모니터링, 심층 연구, 소셜 리스닝, 그리고 다양한 다른 기술들이 매우 유용할 수 있습니다. 이러한 도구들은 방대한 양의 비정형 데이터를 수집할 수 있으며, 우리는 이 데이터를 AI에 공급하여 고객의 목소리를 개발할 수 있습니다.

    우리가 사용할 수 있는 고객의 목소리에는 14가지 차원이 있습니다.

    고객의 목소리 차트

    • 광고 및 마케팅 반응
    • 시장 조사
    • 소셜 대화
    • 제품/서비스 댏롰
    • 대면/개인 메시지
    • 검색 의도 데이터
    • 자사 행동 데이터
    • 공개 경쟁사 데이터
    • 영업 상호 작용
    • 고객 서비스
    • 사용자/소유자 ꡸룚 및 커뮤니티
    • 고객 메타데이터
    • 설문 조사
    • AI뼟 이용한 가상 고객

    이것들은 내부 및 외부 데이터 소스가 혼합되어 있다는 것을 알 수 있습니다. 이번 뉴스레터의 핵심인 경쟁 분석에 관해서는 외부 데이터 소스에 집중하여 데이터를 동등하게 비교할 수 있도록 해야 합니다.

    이유는 다음과 같습니다. 고객의 목소리는 두 부분으로 나눌 수 있습니다. 우리 고객의 목소리와 경쟁사 고객의 목소리입니다.

    이해되시나요? 고객의 목소리를 이런 식으로 재고하는 것의 마법이 보이시나요? 고객은 휴일 젤로 과일 샐러드처럼 비정형적인 의견 덩어리가 아닙니다. 우리에게는 다양한 계층의 고객이 있으며, 가장 넓은 수준에서 우리 고객과 경쟁사 고객이 있습니다.

    4부: VOC/SWOT

    이것의 마법에 대해 알아봅시다. 만약 우리가 우리 고객의 목소리를 수집하고 경쟁사 고객의 목소리를 수집할 수 있다면, 생성형 AI를 사용하여 (아마도 대규모 데이터 세트를 위해 일괄적으로) 모든 데이터를 처리하고 다음 네 가지 범주로 요약할 수 있습니다.

    • 우리 고객이 우리 회사에 대해 좋아하는 것
    • 우리 고객이 우리 회사에 대해 싫어하는 것
    • 경쟁사 고객이 경쟁사에 대해 좋아하는 것
    • 경쟁사 고객이 경쟁사에 대해 싫어하는 것

    이것은 매우 명확하게 SWOT 분석입니다. 우리 고객이 우리 회사에 대해 좋아하거나 싫어하는 것은 우리의 강점과 약점이지만, 우리 관점이 아니라 고객의 관점에서 본 것입니다. 우리는 우리가 생각하는 강점과 약점에 대해 자랑할 수 있지만, 그것은 대금을 지불하는 사람들의 의견이 아닙니다.

    그리고 결과적으로 경쟁사 고객이 경쟁사에 대해 좋아하고 싫어하는 것은 우리의 위협과 기회입니다. 만약 경쟁사 고객들이 모두 높은 가격에 대해 불평하고 있다면, 가격 경쟁력으로 그들을 이길 수 있는 기회가 있을 수 있습니다.

    좋습니다. 이제 우리는 상황이 어떻게 흘러가야 하는지 이해했습니다. 이것을 어떻게 현실로 가져올 수 있을까요? 유행어를 가득 채워서 말하자면, 생성형 AI로 경쟁 분석을 어떻게 혁신할 수 있을까요?

    고객의 목소리의 14가지 차원 중에서, 이 예시에서는 2가지만 사용할 것입니다. 왜냐하면 이것은 유료 프로젝트가 아니라 시연이기 때문입니다. 우리는 AHREFS와 같은 SEO 도구에서 얻을 수 있는 검색 의도 데이터와 세 가지 다른 심층 연구 도구 – Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, ꡸댏고 Grok Deep Search의 심층 연구를 사용할 것입니다. 각 도구마다 강점과 약점이 있기 때문에 심층 연구 결곟뼟 혼합할 것입니다.

    일단 이러한 조각들을 모으면, 우리가 선택한 생성형 AI 도구에 프롬프트를 입력하여 VOC/SWOT을 조립하도록 도울 수 있습니다. 이 분석을 위해 저는 MarketingProfs의 관점에서, 마치 제가 MarketingProfs를 위해 일하는 것처럼 하겠습니다. (저는 그렇지 않지만, 그들의 행사에서 자주 연설합니다)

    다음은 추론 모델에서 가장 잘 작동하는 예시 프롬프트입니다.

    당신은 McKinsey, Bain, 그리고 BCG 스타일의 경영 컨설팅 전문가입니다. 당신은 경쟁 분석, 경쟁, 시장 역학, 그리고 SWOT, 포터의 5 Forces, 경쟁 매트릭스, PEST/PESTEL과 같은 경쟁 분석 프레임워크와 그 외 많은 것들을 알고 있습니다. 오늘 우리는 SWOT 분석을 조립할 것입니다. 여기에는 당신이 따라야 할 규칙과 원하는 결과물이 있습니다.

    우리는 경영 컨설팅 회사인 TrustInsights.ai가 발명한 특별한 유형의 SWOT 분석인 VOC/SWOT을 수행할 것입니다.

    분석을 수행할 회사는 다음과 같습니다.

    • 우리의 고객, MarketingProfs B2B Forum
    • 우리 고객의 가장 큰 경쟁사, Content Marketing World

    당신에게는 우리 고객과 경쟁사의 고객의 목소리 데이터가 두 가지 형식으로 제공될 것입니다.

    • 심층 연구 브리핑
    • 검색 의도 데이터

    이 데이터로부터 다음 VOC 분석을 종합하고 말로 보고하십시오.

    • MarketingProfs B2B Forum에 대해 고객이 좋아하는 것 (있다면)
    • MarketingProfs B2B Forum에 대해 고객이 싫어하는 것 (있다면)
    • Content Marketing World에 대해 고객이 좋아하는 것 (있다면)
    • Content Marketing World에 대해 고객이 싫어하는 것 (있다면)

    소스에서 얻은 네 가지 범주의 데이터를 모두 말로 보고한 후, VOC/SWOT을 조립하십시오.

    VOC/SWOT은 고객의 목소리 데이터를 사용하는 SWOT 분석입니다. 다음 범주로 SWOT 분석을 구축할 것입니다.

    • 강점: MarketingProfs B2B Forum 고객이 MarketingProfs B2B Forum에 대해 좋아하는 것
      • MarketingProfs B2B Forum이 강한 부분에 대해 Content Marketing World가 강점 또는 약점을 가지고 있는지에 대한 분석
    • 약점: MarketingProfs B2B Forum 고객이 MarketingProfs B2B Forum에 대해 싫어하는 것
      • MarketingProfs B2B Forum이 약한 부분에 대해 Content Marketing World가 강점 또는 약점을 가지고 있는지에 대한 분석
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    VOC 분석을 생성한 후 VOC/SWOT을 생성하십시오.

    자, 일단 이 분석을 얻었다면, 이것은 단지 시작점일 뿐입니다. 모든 SWOT 분석과 마찬가지로, 그 이후에 무엇을 하느냐가 정말 중요합니다. 어떤 결정을 내릴 것인가? 어떤 행동을 취할 것인가? 약점을 어떻게 극복하고 강점을 어떻게 강화할 것인가?

    그리고 동일한 데이터 세트를 여러 경쟁사에 적용하여 포터의 5 Forces 모델을 구축하는 것은 상상하기 어렵지 않습니다. 또는 오늘의 뉴스 헤드라인과 귀사의 데이터 및 경쟁사의 데이터를 사용하여 PEST 분석을 구축할 수도 있습니다.

    모든 분석과 마찬가지로, 그 이후에 무엇을 하느냐가 정말 중요하지만, 여기서 생성형 AI를 사용하면 분석 프로세스를 획기적으로 가속화하여 대응하고 생각할 거리를 얻을 수 있습니다.

    5부: 마무리

    여기서 혁신이라고 할 만한 것은, 우리가 훨씬 더 큰 규모의 데이터와 고객의 관점에서 경쟁 분석을 구축할 수 있다는 것입니다. 마케터들은 – ꡸댏고 저도 이 범주에 속합니다 – 경쟁사가 무엇을 하는지에 너무 집착하여, 경쟁사의 고객이 무엇을 하는지가 훨씬 더 중요하다는 것을 깨닫지 못합니다.

    만약 우리 고객이 우리 회사에 불만족스럽다면, 우리의 약점이 무엇인지 명확히 알고 있다면 그들을 되찾을 기회가 있을 수 있습니다. 만약 경쟁사의 고객이 그 회사에 불만족스럽다면, 우리는 그들을 우리 편으로 끌어들일 기회가 있을 수 있습니다. 만약 우리가 경쟁사가 무엇을 하는지에만 집중하고 고객이 무엇을 말하는지에는 집중하지 않는다면, 그러한 기회를 놓치게 될 것입니다.

    생성형 AI를 귀사의 데이터와 경쟁사 데이터와 함께 이처럼 사용하면, 이전보다 훨씬 빠르게 통찰력을 얻을 수 있으며, 더 빠르게 조치를 취하고, 고객이 진정으로 원하는 것에 눈이 멀지 않고, 고객에게 레이저처럼 집중할 수 있는 더 많은 기회를 얻을 수 있습니다.

    뻔뻔한 홍보: 저희 회사인 Trust Insights는 귀사와 같은 회사를 위해 이 일을 합니다. 만약 귀사가 매출 성장을 위한 혁신적인 솔루션을 고안해내라는 요청을 받고 있고, 특히 AI가 관련되어 있으며, 어떻게 해야 할지 모르겠다면, 저희가 도와드리겠습니다.

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    광고: 신규 AI 강좌!

    마케터를 위한 프롬프트 엔지니어링 마스터하기는 프롬프트 엔지니어링에 대한 2시간 투어입니다. 처음 몇 개의 모듈에서는 프롬프트가 무엇인지 뿐만 아니라 AI 모델 내부에서 프롬프트가 처리될 때 무슨 일이 일어나는지 설명합니다. 설명을 비전문적으로 만들었지만 (softmax 레이어와 어텐션 매트릭스를 저 말고 누가 정말 좋아하겠어요), 워크스루는 상자 안에서 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는지 정말 자세히 파고듭니다.

    그것을 알면 프롬프트가 왜 작동하거나 작동하지 않는지 이해하는 데 도움이 됩니다. 강좌에서 프롬프트가 어떻게 처리되는지 시청하면 이유를 알게 될 것입니다.

    그런 다음 3가지 프롬프트 프레임워크와 “심층” 🤫 고급 프롬프트 기술을 워크스루하고, 각 기술이 무엇인지, 왜 관심을 가져야 하는지, 언제 사용해야 하는지, ꡸댏고 어떻게 사용해야 하는지에 대한 다운로드 가능한 가이드와 함께 제공됩니다.

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    이 뉴스레터의 광고는 홍보를 위해 비용을 지불했으며, 그 결과로 저는 그 광고를 홍보하는 데 대한 직접적인 금전적 보상을 받습니다.

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    Minggu lepas kita telah membahas apa itu transformasi (bentuk yang berubah) jadi kita tidak akan mengulanginya, cukup untuk mengatakan bahawa jika proses analisis persaingan anda kelihatan sama setelah menggunakan AI padanya, ia adalah pengoptimuman, bukan transformasi.

    Bahagian 1: Mengapa Analisis Pesaing

    Apakah tujuan analisis pesaing? Banyak buku perniagaan telah memetik pelbagai pemimpin yang mengatakan bahawa fokus anda haruslah membuat produk dan perkhidmatan yang lebih baik, dan biarkan pesaing dengan cara mereka sendiri. Jawapan kepada ini benar-benar bergantung pada jenis persekitaran persaingan yang anda hadapi. Jika anda tidak mempunyai pesaing setara yang signifikan, maka analisis pesaing mungkin bukan penggunaan sumber daya yang banyak.

    Jika anda mempunyai pesaing setara – mungkin anda Samsung bersaing dengan Apple, atau Lao Xiangji bersaing dengan KFC, maka anda sangat mahu melakukan analisis pesaing.

    Dan semua perniagaan harus melakukannya dalam beberapa kapasiti, jika tidak ada alasan lain selain untuk menyedari perubahan besar dalam pasaran – terutamanya dalam apa yang pelanggan mahukan.

    Ini adalah jurang terbesar dalam kebanyakan analisis pesaing hari ini. Kebanyakan analisis pesaing melihat apa yang syarikat lakukan. Itu bukan perkara terburuk di dunia, tetapi ia tidak membantu perniagaan anda secara langsung.

    Jadi, apa yang patut anda perhatikan? Baiklah, sebelum kita sampai ke sana, mari kita tinjau beberapa rangka kerja analisis persaingan asas.

    Bahagian 2: Rangka Kerja Analisis Pesaing

    Debukan buku sekolah perniagaan anda, kecuali jika anda seperti saya dan anda menjualnya kembali ke sekolah pada akhir tahun akademik. Kemudian berpura-pura mendebukannya. Anda mungkin telah mempelajari tiga rangka kerja analisis persaingan yang berbeza:

    Analisis SWOT

    Kegemaran sekolah perniagaan dan firma perunding kerana ia adalah matriks 2×2 yang digemari, analisis SWOT melihat kekuatan, kelemahan, peluang, dan ancaman. Walau bagaimanapun, hampir semua orang melakukan ini dengan salah. Hampir setiap analisis SWOT yang pernah saya baca mencampuradukkan item dalam kategori yang berbeza, atau lebih teruk lagi, menggunakannya pada skop yang lebih besar daripada yang dimaksudkan.

    Analisis SWOT bukanlah analisis industri. Analisis industri tidak termasuk di dalamnya. Analisis SWOT adalah tentang membandingkan anda dengan SATU pesaing lain.

    Perkara utama kedua yang ramai, ramai orang lakukan salah ialah mencampuradukkan item. Analisis SWOT sebenarnya adalah matriks 2×2 perundingan, jadi terdapat dua paksi. Satu paksi ialah kekuatan dan kelemahan, paksi yang lain ialah anda dan pesaing anda. Inilah yang saya maksudkan:

    • Kekuatan: ini adalah perkara yang anda mahir, kapasiti dalaman, keputusan dalaman. Di sinilah anda kuat, tanpa mengira pesaing.
    • Kelemahan: ini adalah perkara yang anda tidak mahir, kekurangan dalaman, keputusan dalaman. Di sinilah anda lemah, tanpa mengira pesaing.
    • Peluang: ini adalah perkara yang pesaing anda tidak mahir, kekurangan mereka. Ini adalah kelemahan pesaing anda yang boleh anda manfaatkan.
    • Ancaman: ini adalah perkara yang pesaing anda mahir, kapasiti mereka. Ini adalah kekuatan pesaing anda yang perlu anda kurangkan.

    Nampak tak?

    Kekuatan anda adalah ancaman pesaing anda. Ancaman anda adalah kekuatan pesaing anda.

    Kelemahan anda adalah peluang pesaing anda. Peluang anda adalah kelemahan pesaing anda.

    Sebaik sahaja anda memahami ini, membuat analisis SWOT yang sangat jelas menjadi jauh lebih mudah.

    “Tetapi bagaimana pula dengan…” adalah bantahan biasa, diikuti oleh berdozen senario dan andaian yang berbeza. Itu biasanya tidak termasuk dalam analisis SWOT. Di mana ia termasuk? Mungkin dalam Porter’s 5 Forces.

    Porter’s 5 Forces

    Model 5 Forces Michael Porter 1979, kini hanya dipanggil Porter’s 5 Forces, adalah pandangan gambaran besar industri anda secara keseluruhan. Di sinilah kebanyakan andaian dan bagaimana-jika sesuai.

    Lima daya itu ialah:

    • Ancaman Pendatang Baharu: Daya ini menganalisis betapa mudahnya syarikat baharu boleh memasuki industri, yang boleh meningkatkan persaingan dan mengurangkan keuntungan. Halangan masuk yang rendah bermakna menjadi menguntungkan adalah lebih sukar.
    • Kuasa Tawar Pembekal: Ini memeriksa pengaruh pembekal terhadap harga dan ketersediaan sumber untuk perniagaan dalam industri. Jika rantaian bekalan anda terikat dengan pembekal yang sangat tidak konsisten, menjadi berjaya adalah lebih sukar.
    • Kuasa Tawar Pembeli: Daya ini menilai keupayaan pelanggan untuk merundingkan harga yang lebih rendah atau menuntut kualiti yang lebih tinggi, yang memberi kesan kepada keuntungan industri. Jika anda satu-satunya pilihan, anda boleh menentukan harga anda. Jika terdapat stesen minyak yang berbeza di setiap sudut dan pakatan sulit/penetapan harga dilarang oleh undang-undang, anda akan kurang menguntungkan.
    • Ancaman Produk atau Perkhidmatan Pengganti: Daya ini mempertimbangkan kemungkinan pelanggan beralih kepada penyelesaian alternatif yang memenuhi keperluan yang sama, yang mengehadkan kuasa harga. Jika Temu memenuhi keperluan anda, mengapa Amazon?
    • Intensiti Persaingan Antara Pesaing Sedia Ada: Ini menilai tahap persaingan antara pemain semasa dalam industri, yang boleh membawa kepada perang harga dan margin yang dikurangkan. Semakin sengit persaingan anda, semakin sukar untuk menjadi menguntungkan.

    Porter’s 5 Forces adalah tempat yang bagus untuk bercakap tentang gambaran makro industri, daripada syarikat permulaan yang lebih tangkas kepada pelanggan yang membuat pilihan pembelian yang berbeza.

    Rangka kerja ketiga membersihkan baki andaian: PEST.

    Analisis PEST

    PEST ialah rangka kerja 4 bahagian untuk melihat gambaran sebesar mungkin:

    • Politik: apa yang berlaku dari perspektif politik yang memberi kesan kepada industri anda secara keseluruhan? Di sinilah perkara seperti tarif mungkin termasuk.
    • Ekonomi: apa yang berlaku dari perspektif ekonomi yang memberi kesan kepada industri anda? Di sinilah dinamik seperti pengangguran atau pasaran saham boleh memberi kesan.
    • Sosial: apa yang berlaku dalam masyarakat yang boleh memberi kesan kepada industri anda? Adakah anda mengambil atau meninggalkan beberapa ciri penting sosial (seperti DEI) yang boleh membuat pelanggan mahu berbelanja dengan pesaing dan bukannya dengan anda?
    • Teknologi: apa yang berlaku dalam teknologi yang boleh mengubah perniagaan anda? Daripada AI hingga telefon pintar, tidak ada kekurangan perubahan teknologi yang boleh mengubah industri secara drastik.

    Ini membersihkan pertimbangan yang tinggal yang mungkin timbul dalam mesyuarat strategi.

    Baiklah, tetapi bagaimana ini membantu kita melakukan analisis pesaing dengan lebih baik?

    Terdapat satu lagi dimensi yang perlu kita pertimbangkan: pelanggan.

    Bahagian 3: Suara Pelanggan

    Ini adalah bahan utama yang hilang dalam hampir setiap analisis pesaing. Dalam banyak cara, kita tidak peduli tentang apa yang pesaing kita lakukan, kecuali kerana ia membantu kita untuk memahami apa yang pelanggan mahukan dan boleh dapatkan daripada pesaing kita yang mereka tidak boleh dapatkan daripada kita.

    Cabaran bagi kebanyakan kita ialah suara pelanggan kebanyakannya adalah kata kunci, sesuatu yang kita lafazkan secara lisan, tetapi tidak pernah benar-benar meluangkan masa untuknya. Mengapa? Kerana ia sangat luas. Ia luas, ia tidak berstruktur, ia berantakan, dan mari kita hadapi: aksiom bahawa pelanggan sentiasa betul adalah… cacat. Kadang-kadang pelanggan hanyalah seorang yang bodoh, seperti lelaki yang meminta piza dari barisan pandu lalu di Wendy’s. Tuan, ini Wendy’s.

    Walau bagaimanapun, boleh terdapat KELEBIHAN persaingan yang BESAR yang boleh ditemui dalam suara pelanggan. Triknya adalah dua kali ganda: mendapatkan data dan memproses data.

    Di sinilah pemantauan media, penyelidikan mendalam, pendengaran sosial, dan pelbagai teknologi lain boleh menjadi sangat membantu. Alat ini boleh mengumpul sejumlah besar data tidak berstruktur, yang kemudian boleh kita suapkan kepada AI, untuk membangunkan suara pelanggan.

    Terdapat 14 dimensi suara pelanggan yang boleh kita gunakan:

    Carta Suara Pelanggan

    • Reaksi Pengiklanan dan Pemasaran
    • Penyelidikan Pasaran
    • Perbualan Sosial
    • Ulasan Produk/Perkhidmatan
    • Pemesejan Peribadi/Peribadi
    • Data Niat Carian
    • Data Tingkah Laku Pihak Pertama
    • Data Pesaing Awam
    • Interaksi Jualan
    • Khidmat Pelanggan
    • Kumpulan & Komuniti Pengguna/Pemilik
    • Metadata Pelanggan
    • Tinjauan
    • Pelanggan Sintetik dengan AI

    Anda akan perhatikan bahawa ini adalah campuran sumber data dalaman dan luaran. Apabila ia berkaitan dengan analisis pesaing, yang merupakan tujuan isu surat berita ini, kita mahu memberi tumpuan kepada sumber data luaran supaya kita boleh melakukan perbandingan data epal dengan epal.

    Inilah sebabnya: suara pelanggan boleh dibahagikan kepada dua bahagian: suara pelanggan KITA, dan suara pelanggan PESAING kita.

    Nampak tak? Nampak tak keajaiban dalam memikirkan semula suara pelanggan dengan cara ini? Pelanggan bukanlah gumpalan pendapat amorf seperti salad buah jeli percutian. Kita mempunyai kelas pelanggan yang berbeza, dan pada tahap yang paling luas, kita mempunyai pelanggan kita, dan pesaing kita mempunyai pelanggan mereka.

    Bahagian 4: VOC/SWOT

    Mari kita sampai ke keajaiban ini. Jika kita boleh mengumpul suara pelanggan kita, dan kita boleh mengumpul suara pelanggan pesaing kita, maka kita boleh menggunakan AI generatif untuk memproses semua data tersebut (mungkin dalam kelompok untuk set data yang besar) dan meringkaskannya menjadi empat kategori:

    • Apa yang pelanggan kita suka tentang kita
    • Apa yang pelanggan kita tidak suka tentang kita
    • Apa yang pelanggan pesaing kita suka tentang mereka
    • Apa yang pelanggan pesaing kita tidak suka tentang mereka

    Ini sangat jelas merupakan analisis SWOT – apa yang pelanggan kita suka atau tidak suka tentang kita adalah kekuatan dan kelemahan kita, tetapi dari sudut pandangan pelanggan, bukan kita. Kita boleh berbangga dengan apa yang kita fikirkan kekuatan dan kelemahan kita, tetapi itu bukan pendapat orang yang membayar bil.

    Dan seterusnya, apa yang pelanggan pesaing kita suka dan tidak suka tentang mereka adalah ancaman dan peluang kita. Jika pelanggan pesaing anda semua mengadu tentang harga yang tinggi, terdapat peluang yang berpotensi untuk mengalahkan mereka dalam harga.

    Hebat. Jadi kita faham bagaimana sesuatu sepatutnya berfungsi. Bagaimana kita menghidupkan ini? Bagaimana kita, untuk dipenuhi dengan kata kunci, mengubah analisis persaingan kita dengan AI generatif?

    Daripada 14 dimensi suara pelanggan, kita akan menggunakan 2 daripadanya dalam contoh ini kerana ini hanyalah demonstrasi, bukan projek berbayar. Kita akan menggunakan data niat carian, yang boleh kita dapatkan daripada alat SEO seperti AHREFS. Dan kita akan menggunakan Penyelidikan Mendalam, daripada tiga alat Penyelidikan Mendalam yang berbeza – Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, dan Grok Deep Search. Kita akan menggabungkan output penyelidikan mendalam bersama-sama, kerana setiap satu mempunyai kekuatan dan kelemahan tersendiri.

    Sebaik sahaja kita memasang bahagian-bahagian ini, kita kemudian boleh menggesa alat AI generatif pilihan kita untuk membantu kita memasang VOC/SWOT. Untuk analisis ini, saya akan mengambil perspektif MarketingProfs, seolah-olah saya bekerja untuk MarketingProfs. (Saya tidak, tetapi saya sering bercakap di acara mereka)

    Berikut adalah contoh gesaan yang akan berfungsi paling baik dengan model penaakulan.

    Anda seorang pakar perundingan pengurusan dalam gaya McKinsey, Bain, dan BCG. Anda tahu analisis persaingan, persaingan, dinamik pasaran, dan rangka kerja analisis persaingan seperti SWOT, Porter’s 5 Forces, Matriks Persaingan, PEST/PESTEL, dan banyak lagi. Hari ini kita akan memasang analisis SWOT. Berikut adalah peraturan yang mesti anda ikuti dan output yang diinginkan.

    Kita akan melakukan VOC/SWOT, jenis analisis SWOT khas yang dicipta oleh firma perundingan pengurusan TrustInsights.ai.

    Syarikat yang kita lakukan analisis untuk ialah:

    • Pelanggan kami, Forum B2B MarketingProfs
    • Pesaing terbesar pelanggan kami, Content Marketing World

    Anda akan diberikan data suara pelanggan untuk pelanggan kami dan pesaing mereka dalam dua format:

    • Taklimat penyelidikan mendalam
    • Data niat carian

    Daripada data ini, anda akan mensintesis dan melaporkan dengan lantang Analisis VOC berikut:

    • Apa yang pelanggan suka tentang Forum B2B MarketingProfs, jika ada
    • Apa yang pelanggan tidak suka tentang Forum B2B MarketingProfs, jika ada
    • Apa yang pelanggan suka tentang Content Marketing World, jika ada
    • Apa yang pelanggan tidak suka tentang Content Marketing World, jika ada

    Sebaik sahaja anda telah melaporkan dengan lantang semua empat kategori data daripada sumber, anda kemudian akan memasang VOC/SWOT.

    VOC/SWOT ialah analisis SWOT menggunakan data suara pelanggan. Anda akan membina analisis SWOT dengan kategori ini:

    • Kekuatan: Apa yang pelanggan Forum B2B MarketingProfs suka tentang Forum B2B MarketingProfs
      • Analisis sama ada Content Marketing World mempunyai kekuatan atau kelemahan untuk apa yang Forum B2B MarketingProfs kuat dalam
    • Kelemahan: Apa yang pelanggan Forum B2B MarketingProfs tidak suka tentang Forum B2B MarketingProfs
      • Analisis sama ada Content Marketing World mempunyai kekuatan atau kelemahan untuk apa yang Forum B2B MarketingProfs lemah dalam
    • Peluang: Apa yang pelanggan Content Marketing World tidak suka tentang pelanggan Content Marketing World
      • Analisis sama ada Forum B2B MarketingProfs mempunyai kekuatan atau kelemahan untuk apa yang Content Marketing World lemah dalam
    • Ancaman: Apa yang pelanggan Content Marketing World suka tentang pelanggan Content Marketing World
      • Analisis sama ada Forum B2B MarketingProfs mempunyai kekuatan atau kelemahan untuk apa yang Content Marketing World kuat dalam

    Hasilkan VOC/SWOT selepas anda menghasilkan Analisis VOC.

    Sekarang, sebaik sahaja anda mendapat analisis ini, ini hanyalah titik permulaan. Seperti mana-mana analisis SWOT, apa yang anda lakukan dengannya selepas itu yang benar-benar penting. Keputusan apa yang akan anda buat? Tindakan apa yang akan anda ambil? Bagaimana anda akan mengatasi kelemahan anda dan menggandakan kekuatan anda?

    Dan ia bukanlah lompatan imaginasi yang besar untuk mengambil set data yang sama untuk pelbagai pesaing dan membina Porter’s 5 Forces. Atau ambil tajuk berita hari ini dan dengan data anda dan data pesaing anda, bina analisis PEST.

    Seperti semua analisis, apa yang anda lakukan dengannya selepas itu yang benar-benar penting, tetapi menggunakan AI generatif di sini boleh mempercepatkan proses kepada analisis secara dramatik, memberikan anda sesuatu untuk bertindak balas dan sesuatu untuk difikirkan.

    Bahagian 5: Kesimpulan

    Transformasi, sejauh mana ada satu di sini, adalah bahawa kita dapat mengambil data pada skala yang jauh lebih besar, dan dari sudut pandangan pelanggan, untuk membina analisis persaingan. Pemasar – dan saya sangat dalam kategori ini – menghabiskan begitu banyak masa terpaku pada apa yang pesaing lakukan, tidak menyedari bahawa adalah jauh lebih penting apa yang pelanggan pesaing kita lakukan yang benar-benar penting.

    Jika pelanggan kita tidak berpuas hati dengan kita, kita mungkin mempunyai peluang untuk memenangi mereka kembali jika kita jelas tentang apa kelemahan kita. Jika pelanggan pesaing kita tidak berpuas hati dengan mereka, kita mungkin mempunyai peluang untuk memenangi mereka ke pihak kita. Jika kita terlalu fokus pada apa yang pesaing lakukan, dan bukan apa yang pelanggan katakan, kita akan terlepas peluang tersebut.

    Gunakan AI generatif dengan data anda dan data pesaing anda seperti ini, dan anda akan menemui pandangan lebih cepat daripada sebelumnya, memberikan anda lebih banyak peluang untuk mengambil tindakan lebih cepat, mengelakkan daripada dibutakan oleh apa yang pelanggan benar-benar mahukan, dan kekal fokus laser pada pelanggan.

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    What’s On My Mind: Transformative Strategy with Generative AI, Part 2

    Mike Allton recently asked me what I thought the most transformational use case of generative AI is. To answer this question, we first have to do something really difficult and define what transformation means. Last week we talked about transformation and the Rumsfeld matrix, but I skipped over this part – and I think it’s something we need to review.

    Part 1: Transformation

    Transform: from Latin transformare “change in shape, metamorphose,” from trans “across, beyond” (see trans-) + formare “to form” (see form (v.)).

    When a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, it’s no longer the same. It has a completely different form. It can fly. It has a probiscus.

    More important, if you were never educated about caterpillars and butterflies and basic biology – maybe if you were an alien who just landed on the planet and saw a caterpillar next to a butterfly – you would not think they’re the same thing. You’d look at one and then the other and go nah, that’s not the same.

    Children of the 80s and 90s remember the Transformers line of toys, when a truck becomes a giant robot, or a handgun turns into a different giant robot (completely ignoring physics). Again, looking at Optimus Prime or Megatron in robot form versus Earth object form, you wouldn’t really think they’re the same thing.

    When we talk about transformation in business, if it’s a real transformation, things should look totally different. What you started with looks nothing like what you ended up with.

    The reason this is so difficult is because expensive consultants and terrible leaders who can only mumble buzzwords without a coherent idea of their own LOVE the word transformation. Digital transformation! Business process transformation! Innovative transformation!

    And then the results they produce are an incremental improvement on what’s already there, if they manage any improvement at all. “Your payroll has been digitally transformed! Now instead of punching your timecard in the clock on the wall in one step, you have a new app that allows you to punch your virtual timecard in 27 steps and takes 15 minutes longer than the paper on the wall. Radical transformation!” shouts the consultant as they collect their 3 million dollar paycheck.

    Is it digital? Yes. Is it a transformation? No. It’s still the same thing, just slightly changed. Is it an improvement? Also no.

    My friend, partner, and CEO Katie Robbert often references this example in her talks about AI adoption and how Whole Foods, after Amazon acquired them, had to adopt a new classical AI system that made everything dramatically worse for most of the employees. Was it AI? Yes. Was it a transformation? No. It was just overcomplicating a process for the benefit of the few, at the expense of the many.

    To be transformational, to be transformative, you have to change forms. It’s literally in the words: trans-form. Beyond the form.

    If you know the memes “how it started/how it’s going”, that’s the perfect analogy for transformation. “How it’s going” looks nothing like “how it started.”

    What are some examples of genuine transformation? The podcast company Odeo (OG podcasters remember them fondly) had an internal communications tool that founder Jack Dorsey opened up to the world, called twttr. This was back in the Web 2.0 days when it was trendy to have rounded logos and not use vowels. It of course became Twitter, after Jack got investors and could afford vowels.

    Twitter had nothing to do with podcasting; it was essentially the Slack of Odeo, the internal communications tool. But it became so popular that Odeo just faded away as all attention focused on Twitter.

    In 1938, Lee Byung-chul of Taegu, Korea started a company called Mitsuboshi. This was during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea; his little trading company traded mostly dried fish and noodles. The Korean pronunciation of Mitsuboshi, or “three stars” is now known globally as Samsung, and the company does not sell any fish that I know of. That’s a complete transformation, totally different industries, totally different infrastructure, and a fun story. From fish to phones.

    Did you ever wonder why American Express is named that? I did. In 1850 its name made a lot more sense. Like today’s Federal Express, American Express was a shipping company founded in Buffalo. They express shipped mostly financial things at the time – securities, currency, gold, etc. – a precursor to the financial services company they’d become. From managing stables of horses in New York City to a global financial network, their business totally transformed.

    Those are examples of transformation – changing form. No one sits in on Samsung’s earnings calls today to ask about their noodles and dried fish.

    As we talked about last week, the four pillars of value – scale, quality, cost, and speed (Bigger, better, faster, cheaper) – aren’t transformative. Making something bigger, better, faster, or cheaper doesn’t change its form – a pile of coffee that you made twice as fast, three times as large, and half the price still looks like the pile of coffee you made prior to your efforts.

    That’s not to say you can’t transform individual pieces of your process. For example, if you wrote blog posts with a human writer and you remove all the human writers in favor of AI, the process is definitely different. A room of empty desks looks very different than a room of people at their desks. But the product, the outcome hasn’t transformed. It’s the same thing with a cheaper, faster process.

    Which brings us to the last aspect of transformation: not all transformation is good. Consultants hawk transformation because it sounds impressive (and it allows them to bill a whole lot of money for the process), and of course business magazines, blogs, and influencers all praise the merits of transformation. But not all transformation is good or necessary.

    A house fire is transformational. The picture of before and after is clearly different. Things have changed form, but not for the better.

    A lunatic with a chainsaw running around your office destroying everything is transformational. He’s cut up the desks, terrified your employees, and set things on fire. Things have unquestionably changed form, but not for the better.

    So that begs the question… when is transformation actually needed?

    Part 2: When Do You Actually Need Transformation?

    When do you need to change forms, to potentially cast aside what you’ve been doing?

    When bigger, better, faster, cheaper stops working. When customers, no matter how much bigger, better, faster, or cheaper, just don’t want what you have to offer. For example, Trust Insights used to do a ton of Google Analytics Universal Analytics consulting. (We still do plenty of Google Analytics 4 work, btw) But that product is gone. No amount of marketing or sales efforts will ever bring that line of business because it’s gone now. No customer is willing to pay for it.

    How do you know when something – your company, a specific business line, a specific product or service – is headed in that general direction? There’s a fairly useful matrix from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) called the BCG Growth Share Matrix. It is, as so many consulting things are, a 2×2 matrix. On one axis is market share (or profitability), and on the other axis is growth. You take a good look at your product or service portfolio and assign products or services in one of four categories:

    BCG Growth Share Matrix

    • Low growth, low market share/profit: Dogs. These products or services weigh you down. Customers don’t want it, and the prospects for the future are dime.
    • Low growth, high market share/profit: Cash cows. These are reliable producers, bringing in money. You might never see big increases in growth, but as long as the money keeps flowing, you keep offering these.
    • High growth, low market share/profit: Questions. You might have something new that the market isn’t sure it wants, but growth is picking up.
    • High growth, high market share/profit: Stars. These are the rockstars of your portfolio, the drivers of your business moving forward.

    A transformational process – meaning you really pivot into something unrecognizable from what you were doing in the past – consumes a LOT of resources. It requires retraining, new/different customers, new/different processes and technologies – which means if your portfolio has lots of cash cows and stars, a transformation is going to sap resources from what’s already working.

    You NEED transformation when your portfolio is loaded down with dogs and maybe a couple of cash cows. The cash cows are keeping the bills paid and the lights on, but the dogs are weighing you down, and your prospects for the future don’t look great. There’s nothing in the questions category that could be a future cash cows or star, and the star category is empty.

    When you’ve reached that point, that’s when transformation is a good idea. The cash cows can fund the transformation, and part of the transformation is to jettison the dogs as quickly as resources permit.

    Part 3: AI’s Role in Transformation

    Now that we’ve got the lay of the land when it comes to transformation itself – because AI just complicates things if you don’t have a solid foundation – we can talk about the role AI plays in transformation.

    Like we discussed recently with AI agents – in which we needed to define an agent first before talking about how AI impacted it – we can now look at AI-enabled transformation in the same way. The first, most obvious application for AI is to digest down the enormous amount of information you have to assign it to the growth share matrix, or the growth profit matrix. For most companies, a growth profit matrix will be easier to build because you know what’s profitable, but you may not know what percentage of market share you have.

    From your accounting system – because that’s the best system of record for this sort of thing – export out your profits and growth year over year by product or service line, and build that into a simple, flat spreadsheet. Don’t try to do this part with generative AI. It’ll make a hot mess of everything.

    Once you have a simple spreadsheet that looks like this:

    Product/Service|Net Profit|Y/Y Growth
    |-|-|-|
    Product A|5M|5%
    Product B|2M|-3%
    Product C|1M|12%
    Product D|-1|4%
    Product E|12M|0%

    Then either with a traditional spreadsheet or a reasoning model like Claude 3.7, OpenAI o1, Gemini 2 Flash Thinking, or other reasoning models, have it construct the growth-profit/share matrix. Depending on your company, you might have dozens or even hundreds of these, so you might want to roll them up into categories if you have more than a couple dozen.

    Plot them out on your 2×2 matrix and have an honest conversation with yourself and your favorite AI. What do you see? How many stars do you have? How many dogs?

    Once you’ve done this – and bear in mind this can be at the company level, the department level, or even the team level, then ask AI how to get from where you are to having more question marks. Why? One of the things that’s not immediately obvious about the growth share matrix is that it’s also a lifecycle.

    Products and services generally start as question marks. You’re not sure how something is going, but boy, customers are asking for it.

    Eventually you nail product market fit and you get solid profits and fast growth. It becomes a star.

    Over time, you acquire as much market share or profit as you can manage. Sometimes you dominate the category. Sometimes you don’t. Either way, growth slows down. Profitability remains solid, and the star becomes a cash cows.

    And then, because nothing ever stays the same – new challengers enter a market, or the market shifts – the cash cows eventually becomes a dog.

    This is where generative AI comes in. With exceptional levels of detail for each product or service, such as your ideal customer profile, competitors, and other relevant information per product/service, you ask AI what credible pathways exist to either keep that product/service a star, or get it back to being a star.

    And that’s where the transformation happens. What does it take to turn a cash cow back into a star? That requires new growth. New growth either comes from a market you haven’t addressed yet, or from a change in the core product/service that compels your existing market to buy it again from you.

    The key here is that you need to provide a ridiculous amount of detail to generative AI to help it understand the placement of the product/service within the market, to understand what the market trends are, to understand why something didn’t remain a star.

    Why AI? Can’t a person just do this? Well, yes. Big consulting firms make millions of dollars per year for each client doing exactly this. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have millions of dollars a year to spend on this kind of consulting. For businesses that aren’t billion or trillion dollar companies, big consulting firms are simply out of reach.

    Generative AI isn’t.

    There’s the heart of the matter. Generative AI itself might not transform your business, but it can help you guide your transformation, if one is needed. And when the average consulting engagement takes years and costs millions, generative AI for non-mega-corporations can provide the same general capabilities to companies of every size.

    Once you identify the transformations you need to make – from fish to smart TVs, from delivery service to financial institution, from old to new – then you continue to ask generative AI for help. Ask it for a strategic guide, a work plan per department, a task list by quarter, by team member. From that master strategic analysis, you can derive all the steps you need to take, all the changes you need to make, to transform dogs and cows back into stars, or find your next stars.

    Here’s a tangible example: I personally sell (through Trust Insights) things like books, keynote speeches, workshops, courses, and other forms of professional development. Some things, like courses, are stars – profitable and growing fast. Some things like keynotes, are cash cows – profitable, but not growing hugely. And some things, like books, are dogs. The time it takes to write a book is about three times as long as it takes to build a course, and a book is a couple orders of magnitude less profitable than an equivalent course.

    What’s missing? That’s right. On my current personal offerings, there are no question marks. There’s nothing in that category that is fast growth, but questionable about profitability or market share yet. That’s my opportunity for transformation. What could I put in that category?

    I’d spend some time brainstorming with generative AI to think through what could be in that category. We could use last week’s examples with the Rumsfeld matrix, but what I like about the BCG growth share matrix is its focus on profitability and growth. We might identify all manner of things we could be doing, but how many of them are likely to be profitable?

    Part 4: Wrapping Up

    The true power of generative AI in transformation isn’t cramming AI into everything, isn’t treating AI like Nutella and putting it on everything. The true power of generative AI, the transformational use case, is enabling transformation itself by helping you identify where transformation might need to occur, what the end state might look like, and critically, how to get there.

    You might say, “but my work doesn’t have a net profit or a market share or a growth rate”. That’s fine. You have measures galore to fit into a similar matrix. The Trust Insights TRIPS matrix has 5 of them – how much time a task takes, how repetitive it is, how important it is, how pleasant it is, and how much data you have. If you are measured on output, then by default time is a component of that output. You could build a matrix of volume of output and time per output, then apply the same methodology.

    There is no form of work that doesn’t have some form of quantifiable measurement. Even the most corrupt, useless politician could measure number of bribes and how large a bribe they’ve taken, or the number and scale of crimes they’ve committed.

    Take stock of where you are right now, what you or your company have in the marketplace, and use generative AI to find those transformational evolutions, if it makes sense to do so.

    This has inadvertently become a series, so next week we’ll look at generative AI and competitive strategy.

    Shameless plug: my company, Trust Insights, does this for companies like yours. If you’re being asked to come up with transformative solutions for your business to grow revenue, and especially if AI is involved, and you’re not sure how, let us help.

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    我的想法：生成式 AI 的变革性战略，第二部分

    Mike Allton 最近问我，我认为生成式 AI 最具变革性的用例是什么。为了回答这个问题，我们首先要做到一件非常困难的事情，那就是定义“变革”的含义。上周 我们讨论了变革和拉姆斯菲尔德矩阵，但我跳过了这一部分 – 我认为这是我们需要回顾的内容。

    第一部分：变革

    变革：源自拉丁语 transformare，意为“改变形状，变形”，由 trans “横跨，超越”（见 trans-）+ formare “形成”（见 form (v.)）组成。

    当一只毛毛虫变成蝴蝶时，它不再是原来的样子了。它拥有完全不同的形态。它可以飞翔，它有吸管。

    更重要的是，如果你从未接受过关于毛毛虫和蝴蝶以及基础生物学的教育——也许如果你是一个刚降落到地球上的外星人，看到一只毛毛虫旁边有一只蝴蝶——你不会认为它们是同一种东西。你会看一个，然后再看另一个，然后说“不，那不是同一种东西”。

    80 年代和 90 年代的孩子们记得“变形金刚”系列玩具，卡车变成巨型机器人，或者手枪变成另一个不同的巨型机器人（完全无视物理学）。同样，看看擎天柱或威震天在机器人形态与地球物体形态下的样子，你不会真的认为它们是同一种东西。

    当我们在商业中谈论变革时，如果是真正的变革，事物应该看起来完全不同。你开始时的样子与你最终得到的样子截然不同。

    之所以如此困难，是因为那些昂贵的顾问和糟糕的领导者，他们只会含糊不清地说着流行语，而对自己有什么连贯的想法一无所知，他们 热爱 “变革”这个词。“数字化转型！”“业务流程转型！”“创新转型！”

    然后他们产生的结果是对现有事物的渐进式改进，如果他们能够实现任何改进的话。“您的工资单已完成数字化转型！现在，您无需一步到位在墙上的时钟上打卡，而可以使用新的应用程序，让您在 27 个步骤中打虚拟卡，并且比墙上的纸质卡片多花费 15 分钟。激进的转型！”顾问一边喊着，一边收取 300 万美元的薪水。

    它是数字化的吗？是的。它是转型吗？不是。它仍然是同一件事，只是略有改变。它是一种改进吗？也不是。

    我的朋友、合伙人兼首席执行官 Katie Robbert 经常在她 关于人工智能采用的演讲 中引用这个例子，以及亚马逊收购全食超市后，全食超市不得不采用一种新的经典人工智能系统，该系统让大多数员工的工作都变得糟糕得多。它是人工智能吗？是的。它是转型吗？不是。它只是为了少数人的利益而使流程复杂化，却牺牲了大多数人的利益。

    要实现变革，要具有变革性，你必须改变形态。这实际上就在词语中：trans-form。“超越形态”。

    如果你知道“开始时/现在”的梗图，那就是对变革的完美类比。“现在”的样子与“开始时”的样子截然不同。

    真正的变革有哪些例子？播客公司 Odeo（老播客们还记得他们）有一个内部沟通工具，创始人 Jack Dorsey 向世界开放了它，名为 twttr。那是在 Web 2.0 时代，当时流行圆形徽标和不使用元音。当然，在 Jack 获得投资者并能够负担得起元音后，它变成了 Twitter。

    Twitter 与播客没有任何关系；它本质上是 Odeo 的 Slack，内部沟通工具。但它变得如此受欢迎，以至于 Odeo 逐渐消失，所有注意力都集中在 Twitter 上。

    1938 年，韩国大邱的李秉喆创立了一家名为 Mitsuboshi 的公司。当时正值日本入侵和占领朝鲜；他的小贸易公司主要交易鱼干和面条。“Mitsuboshi”或“三星”的韩语发音现在在全球范围内被称为三星，据我所知，该公司不销售任何鱼类。这是一个彻底的转型，完全不同的行业，完全不同的基础设施，以及一个有趣的故事。从鱼到手机。

    你有没有想过为什么美国运通被命名为 American Express？我想过。在 1850 年，它的名字更有意义。就像今天的联邦快递一样，美国运通是一家在布法罗成立的航运公司。他们当时主要快递金融物品——证券、货币、黄金等——这是他们后来成为金融服务公司的先驱。从管理纽约市的马厩到全球金融网络，他们的业务彻底转型。

    这些都是变革的例子——改变形态。今天没有人参加三星的财报电话会议来询问他们的面条和鱼干。

    正如我们 上周讨论的 ，价值的四大支柱——规模、质量、成本和速度（更大、更好、更快、更便宜）——并非变革性的。使某物更大、更好、更快或更便宜并不会改变其形态——你以两倍的速度、三倍的规模和一半的价格制作的一堆咖啡，看起来仍然像你之前制作的那堆咖啡。

    这并不是说你不能改变流程的各个部分。例如，如果你过去使用人工撰稿人撰写博客文章，而你取消所有人工撰稿人而改用人工智能，那么流程肯定会发生变化。一间空荡荡的办公室与一间人们坐在办公桌前的办公室看起来截然不同。但产品，结果并没有改变。它与更便宜、更快的流程相同。

    这就引出了变革的最后一个方面：并非所有变革都是好的。顾问兜售变革，因为它听起来令人印象深刻（并且这让他们可以为这个过程收取大量费用），当然，商业杂志、博客和影响者都在赞扬变革的优点。但并非所有变革都是好的或必要的。

    房屋火灾是变革性的。前后的照片显然是不同的。事物已经改变了形态，但不是变得更好。

    一个拿着电锯在你的办公室里乱跑，破坏一切的疯子是变革性的。他砍坏了桌子，吓坏了你的员工，还放火烧东西。事物无疑改变了形态，但不是变得更好。

    这就引出了一个问题……什么时候才真正需要变革？

    第二部分：你何时真正需要变革？

    你何时需要改变形态，可能抛弃你一直在做的事情？

    当更大、更好、更快、更便宜不再奏效时。当客户，无论多么更大、更好、更快或更便宜，只是不想要你提供的产品时。例如，Trust Insights 曾经做过大量的 Google Analytics Universal Analytics 咨询。（我们仍然做大量的 Google Analytics 4 工作，顺便说一句）但该产品已经消失了。再多的营销或销售努力也无法带来这条业务线，因为它现在已经消失了。没有客户愿意为此付费。

    你如何知道某事物——你的公司、特定的业务线、特定的产品或服务——正朝着那个大致方向发展？波士顿咨询集团 (BCG) 有一个相当有用的矩阵，称为 BCG 增长份额矩阵。正如许多咨询事物一样，它是一个 2×2 矩阵。一个轴是市场份额（或盈利能力），另一个轴是增长。你仔细看看你的产品或服务组合，并将产品或服务分配到以下四个类别之一：

    BCG 增长份额矩阵

    • 低增长，低市场份额/利润：瘦狗。这些产品或服务拖累你。客户不想要它，而且未来的前景渺茫。
    • 低增长，高市场份额/利润：金牛。这些是可靠的生产者，带来资金。你可能永远不会看到增长大幅增加，但只要资金持续流入，你就会继续提供这些。
    • 高增长，低市场份额/利润：问号。你可能有一些市场不确定是否想要的新事物，但增长正在加快。
    • 高增长，高市场份额/利润：明星。这些是你产品组合中的摇滚明星，是你业务向前发展的驱动力。

    一个变革性的过程——意味着你真正转向与过去所做的截然不同的事物——会消耗大量资源。它需要再培训、新的/不同的客户、新的/不同的流程和技术——这意味着如果你的产品组合中有很多金牛和明星，那么转型将会消耗已经奏效的事物的资源。

    当你的产品组合中充斥着瘦狗，可能还有几头金牛时，你 需要 转型。金牛维持着账单支付和灯火通明，但瘦狗拖累着你，而且你未来的前景看起来并不光明。“问号”类别中没有任何可能成为未来金牛或明星的东西，而“明星”类别是空的。

    当你达到那个地步时，转型是一个好主意。金牛可以为转型提供资金，而转型的一部分是尽快抛弃瘦狗，只要资源允许。

    第三部分：人工智能在转型中的作用

    现在我们已经了解了转型本身的概况——因为如果你没有坚实的基础，人工智能只会使事情复杂化——我们可以谈谈人工智能在转型中扮演的角色。

    就像我们最近讨论人工智能代理时一样——我们需要首先定义代理，然后再讨论人工智能如何影响它——我们现在可以以同样的方式看待人工智能驱动的转型。人工智能的第一个也是最明显的应用是消化你必须分配给增长份额矩阵或增长利润矩阵的大量信息。对于大多数公司来说，增长利润矩阵将更容易构建，因为你知道什么是盈利的，但你可能不知道你拥有多少市场份额。

    从你的会计系统——因为这是此类事情的最佳记录系统——按产品或服务线导出你的利润和同比增长率，并将其构建到一个简单的平面电子表格中。不要尝试使用生成式人工智能来完成这一部分。它会把一切都搞得一团糟。

    一旦你有一个像这样的简单电子表格：

    产品/服务 净利润 同比增长
    产品 A 500 万 5%
    产品 B 200 万 -3%
    产品 C 100 万 12%
    产品 D -1 4%
    产品 E 1200 万 0%

    然后，使用传统的电子表格或像 Claude 3.7、OpenAI o1、Gemini 2 Flash Thinking 或其他推理模型这样的推理模型，让它构建增长-利润/份额矩阵。根据你的公司，你可能拥有数十个甚至数百个此类产品/服务，因此如果你的产品/服务超过几十个，你可能希望将它们汇总到类别中。

    将它们绘制在你的 2×2 矩阵上，并与你自己和你最喜欢的人工智能进行诚实的对话。你看到了什么？你有多少明星？有多少瘦狗？

    一旦你完成了这项工作——请记住，这可以在公司层面、部门层面，甚至团队层面进行，然后询问人工智能如何从你现在的位置发展到拥有更多问号。为什么？关于增长份额矩阵，一个不立即显而易见的事情是，它也是一个生命周期。

    产品和服务通常从问号开始。你不确定某事进展如何，但是，客户正在询问它。

    最终，你找到了 产品市场契合度 ，并且你获得了可观的利润和快速增长。它变成了一颗明星。

    随着时间的推移，你获得了尽可能多的市场份额或利润。有时你主导了这个类别。有时你没有。无论哪种方式，增长都会放缓。盈利能力仍然稳固，明星变成了金牛。

    然后，因为没有什么是一成不变的——新的挑战者进入市场，或者市场发生转变——金牛最终变成了瘦狗。

    这就是生成式人工智能的用武之地。对于每个产品或服务，凭借极高的细节水平，例如你的理想客户画像、竞争对手以及每个产品/服务的其他相关信息，你询问人工智能是否存在可信的途径来保持该产品/服务为明星，或使其恢复为明星。

    这就是转型发生的地方。将金牛变回明星需要什么？这需要新的增长。新的增长要么来自你尚未涉足的市场，要么来自核心产品/服务的变化，从而促使你现有的市场再次从你这里购买它。

    这里的关键是你需要向生成式人工智能提供大量的细节，以帮助它理解产品/服务在市场中的位置，理解市场趋势是什么，理解为什么某事物没有保持明星地位。

    为什么要用人工智能？难道人就不能做这件事吗？嗯，是的。大型咨询公司每年从每个客户那里赚取数百万美元，正是做这件事。我不知道你怎么样，但我没有每年花费数百万美元用于此类咨询。对于不是数十亿或数万亿美元的公司来说，大型咨询公司简直是遥不可及的。

    生成式人工智能不是。

    这就是问题的核心。生成式人工智能本身可能不会改变你的业务，但如果需要转型，它可以帮助你指导你的转型。当平均咨询项目需要数年时间并花费数百万美元时，对于非巨型公司而言，生成式人工智能可以为各种规模的公司提供相同的通用能力。

    一旦你确定了你需要进行的转型——从鱼到智能电视，从快递服务到金融机构，从旧到新——那么你就可以继续向生成式人工智能寻求帮助。向它索取战略指南、每个部门的工作计划、按季度、按团队成员的任务列表。从该总体战略分析中，你可以推导出你需要采取的所有步骤，你需要做的所有更改，将瘦狗和金牛变回明星，或找到你的下一颗明星。

    这是一个具体的例子：我个人（通过 Trust Insights）销售书籍、主题演讲、研讨会、课程等产品，以及其他形式的专业发展。有些东西，比如课程，是明星——盈利能力强且增长迅速。有些东西，比如主题演讲，是金牛——盈利，但增长不大。还有一些东西，比如书籍，是瘦狗。写一本书所花费的时间大约是制作一门课程的三倍，而一本书的盈利能力比同等课程低几个数量级。

    缺少什么？没错。在我目前的个人产品中，没有问号。在该类别中，没有任何增长迅速，但盈利能力或市场份额仍有疑问的东西。这就是我的转型机会。我可以将什么放入该类别？

    我将花一些时间与生成式人工智能集思广益，思考该类别中可能包含什么。我们可以使用上周关于拉姆斯菲尔德矩阵的例子，但我喜欢 BCG 增长份额矩阵，因为它侧重于盈利能力和增长。我们可能会确定我们可以做的各种各样的事情，但其中有多少可能是有利可图的？

    第四部分：总结

    生成式人工智能在转型中的真正力量不是将人工智能塞进一切事物，也不是像对待 Nutella 那样对待人工智能，将其涂抹在一切事物上。生成式人工智能的真正力量，变革性的用例，是通过帮助你识别可能需要发生转型的地方、最终状态可能是什么样子，以及关键的是，如何到达那里，从而实现转型本身。

    你可能会说，“但是我的工作没有净利润或市场份额或增长率”。没关系。你有大量的衡量标准可以放入类似的矩阵中。Trust Insights TRIPS 矩阵 有 5 个——一项任务花费多少时间、它的重复程度、它的重要性、它的愉快程度以及你拥有多少数据。如果你以产出衡量，那么默认情况下时间是该产出的组成部分。你可以构建一个产出量和每次产出时间的矩阵，然后应用相同的方法。

    没有任何形式的工作没有某种形式的可量化衡量标准。即使是最腐败、最无用的政客也可以衡量贿赂的数量和他们收受的贿赂的规模，或者他们犯下的罪行的数量和规模。

    盘点你现在的处境，你或你的公司在市场中拥有的东西，并使用生成式人工智能来寻找那些变革性的进化，如果这样做有意义的话。

    这无意中变成了一个系列，所以下周我们将研究生成式人工智能和竞争战略。

    无耻宣传：我的公司 Trust Insights 为像您这样的公司提供这项服务。如果您被要求为您的业务增长收入提出变革性解决方案，尤其是在涉及到人工智能的情况下，并且您不确定如何做，请让我们帮助您。

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    애벌레가 나비로 변태할 때, 더 이상 같은 모습이 아닙니다. 완전히 다른 형태를 갖습니다. 날 수 있고, 빨대 모양의 입을 가집니다.

    더 중요한 것은, 애벌레와 나비, 기본적인 생물학에 대해 전혀 교육받지 못했다면 – 어쩌면 당신이 행성에 막 착륙한 외계인이고 애벌레 옆에 나비가 있는 것을 보았다면 – 그것들이 같은 것이라고 생각하지 않을 것입니다. 하나를 ëł´ęł  다른 하나를 보면서 “아니, 저건 다른 거야”라고 말할 것입니다.

    80년대와 90년대의 아이들은 트랜스포머 완구 라인을 기억할 것입니다. 트럭이 거대한 로봇으로 변신하거나, 권총이 다른 거대한 로봇으로 변하는 것(물리학을 완전히 무시하면서). 다시 말하지만, 로봇 형태의 옵티머스 프라임이나 메가트론과 지구 물체 형태를 비교해 보면, 그것들이 정말로 같은 것이라고 생각하지 않을 것입니다.

    비즈니스에서 혁신에 대해 이야기할 때, 진정한 혁신이라면 모든 것이 완전히 달라 보여야 합니다. 처음 시작한 모습은 최종 결과물과 전혀 달라야 합니다.

    이것이 매우 어려운 이유는 비싼 컨설턴트와 자신의 생각에 대한 일관성 있는 아이디어 없이 유행어만 중얼거릴 수 있는 형편없는 리더들이 ‘혁신’이라는 단어를 매우 좋아하기 때문입니다. 디지털 혁신! 비즈니스 프로세스 혁신! 혁신적인 혁신!

    ꡸댏고 그들이 만들어내는 결과는 기존의 것을 점진적으로 개선한 정도이며, 개선이 이루어지더라도 말입니다. “귀사의 급여 시스템이 디지털 방식으로 혁신되었습니다! 이제 벽에 있는 시계에 타임카드를 한 번에 찍는 대신, 가상 타임카드를 27단계로 찍고 벽에 종이를 사용하는 것보다 15분 더 오래 걸리는 새로운 앱이 있습니다. 급진적인 혁신입니다!”라고 컨설턴트는 3백만 달러짜리 수표를 받으며 외칩니다.

    디지털인가요? 네. 혁신인가요? 아니요. 여전히 똑같은 것이고, 약간 변경되었을 뿐입니다. 개선인가요? 아니요.

    제 친구이자 파트너, CEO인 Katie Robbert는 AI 도입에 대한 강연에서 Amazon이 Whole Foods를 인수한 후 대부분의 직원들에게 모든 것을 극적으로 악화시킨 새로운 고전적인 AI 시스템을 도입해야 했던 사례를 자주 언급합니다. AI였나요? 네. 혁신이었나요? 아니요. 단지 소수를 위해 프로세스를 지나치게 복잡하게 만들었을 뿐이며, 다수의 희생을 감수했습니다.

    혁신적이 되려면, 변혁적이 되려면, 형태를 바꿔야 합니다. 문자 그대로 단어 속에 있습니다. trans-form. 형태를 넘어서.

    “시작은 이랬는데/지금은 이렇게 됐다” 밈을 아신다면, 그것이 혁신에 대한 완벽한 비유입니다. “지금은 이렇게 됐다”는 모습은 “시작은 이랬는데”와 전혀 다릅니다.

    진정한 혁신의 예는 무엇이 있을까요? 팟캐스트 회사 Odeo(원조 팟캐스터들은 그들을 그리워합니다)는 내부 커뮤니케이션 도구를 가지고 있었는데, 창립자 Jack Dorsey가 twttr이라는 이름으로 세상에 공개했습니다. 이것은 둥근 로고를 가지고 모음을 사용하지 않는 것이 유행이었던 웹 2.0 시대였습니다. 물론 트위터가 되었고, Jack은 투자자를 유치하여 모음을 사용할 여유가 생겼습니다.

    트위터는 팟캐스팅과는 아무런 관련이 없었습니다. 기본적으로 Odeo의 Slack, 즉 내부 커뮤니케이션 도구였습니다. 그러나 너무 인기를 얻어서 Odeo는 트위터에 모든 관심이 집중되면서 사라졌습니다.

    1938년 한국 대구의 이병철은 미쓰보시라는 회사를 설립했습니다. 당시는 한국이 일본의 침략과 점령을 받고 있던 시기였습니다. 그의 작은 무역 회사는 주로 말댰 생선과 꾭수뼟 거래했습니다. 미쓰보시 또는 “세 개의 별”의 한국어 발음은 현재 전 세계적으로 삼성으로 알려져 있으며, 제가 아는 한 ꡸ 회사는 더 이상 생선을 판매하지 않습니다. 그것은 완전한 혁신이며, 완전히 다른 산업, 완전히 다른 인프라, ꡸댏고 재미있는 이야기입니다. 생선에서 전화기로.

    아메리칸 익스프레스가 왜 그런 이름인지 궁금해하신 적이 있나요? 저는 그랬습니다. 1850년에는 ꡸ 이름이 훨씬 더 말이 되었습니다. 오늘날의 Federal Express처럼, 아메리칸 익스프레스는 버팔로에서 설립된 운송 회사였습니다. 그들은 주로 금융 상품을 특송했습니다 – 증권, 통화, 금 등 – 그들이 될 금융 서비스 회사의 전조였습니다. 뉴욕시에서 말을 관리하는 마구간에서 글로벌 금융 네트워크로, 그들의 사업은 완전히 혁신되었습니다.

    이것들은 형태를 바꾸는 혁신의 예입니다. 오늘날 삼성의 실적 발표에 참여하여 그들의 국수와 말린 생선에 대해 묻는 사람은 아무도 없습니다.

    지난주에 이야기했듯이, 가치의 네 가지 기둥 – 규모, 품질, 비용, 속도 (더 크게, 더 좋게, 더 빠르게, 더 싸게) – 는 혁신적이지 않습니다. 무언가를 더 크게, 더 좋게, 더 빠르게, 또는 더 싸게 만드는 것은 그것의 형태를 바꾸지 않습니다. 두 ë°° 더 뚠뼴고, 세 ë°° 더 큏고, 가격이 절반인 커피 더미는 여전히 당신의 노력 이전의 커피 더미와 똑같아 보입니다.

    그렇다고 해서 프로세스의 개별 부분을 혁신할 수 없다는 것은 아닙니다. 예를 들어, 인간 작가로 블로그 게시물을 작성하고 AI를 선호하여 모든 인간 작가를 제거하면 프로세스는 확실히 다릅니다. 빈 책상 방은 책상에 사람이 앉아 있는 방과는 매우 다르게 보입니다. 그러나 제품, 결과는 혁신되지 않았습니다. 더 저렴하고 빠른 프로세스와 마찬가지입니다.

    이것은 혁신의 마지막 측면으로 이어집니다. 모든 혁신이 좋은 것은 아닙니다. 컨설턴트들은 혁신이 인상적으로 들리기 때문에(그리고 프로세스에 대해 많은 돈을 청구할 수 있기 때문에) 혁신을 팔고, 물론 비즈니스 잡지, 블로그, 인플루언서들은 모두 혁신의 장점을 칭찬합니다. 하지만 모든 혁신이 좋거나 필요한 것은 아닙니다.

    화재는 혁신적입니다. 전후 사진은 분명히 다릅니다. 형태가 바뀌었지만, 더 나아진 것은 아닙니다.

    사무실을 돌아다니며 모든 것을 파괴하는 전기톱을 든 미치광이는 혁신적입니다. 그는 책상을 잘라내고, 직원을 겁에 질리게 하고, 불을 질렀습니다. 상황은 의심할 여지 없이 형태가 바뀌었지만, 더 나아진 것은 아닙니다.

    그렇다면 질문이 생깁니다… 언제 혁신이 실제로 필요할까요?

    2부: 언제 실제로 혁신이 필요할까요?

    언제 형태를 바꾸고, 당신이 해왔던 것을 잠재적으로 버려야 할까요?

    더 크게, 더 좋게, 더 빠르게, 더 싸게가 더 이상 작동하지 않을 때. 고객이 아무리 더 크고, 더 좋고, 더 빠르고, 더 싸게 만들어도 당신이 제공하는 것을 원하지 않을 때. 예를 들어, Trust Insights는 과거에 Google Analytics Universal Analytics 컨설팅을 많이 했습니다. (우리는 여전히 Google Analytics 4 작업을 많이 합니다.) 하지만 그 제품은 사라졌습니다. 아무리 마케팅이나 영업 노력을 해도 그 사업 라인을 다시 가져올 수 없을 것입니다. 왜냐하면 이제 사라졌기 때문입니다. 그것에 대해 기꺼이 돈을 지불할 고객은 없습니다.

    당신의 회사, 특정 사업 라인, 특정 제품 또는 서비스가 언제 그런 일반적인 방향으로 향하고 있는지 어떻게 알 수 있을까요? 보스턴 컨설팅 ꡸룚(BCG)의 BCG 성장-점유율 매트릭스라는 꽤 유용한 매트릭스가 있습니다. 많은 컨설팅 자료가 그렇듯이 2×2 매트릭스입니다. 한 축은 시장 점유율(또는 수익성)이고, 다른 축은 성장입니다. 제품 또는 서비스 포트폴리오를 자세히 살펴보고 제품 또는 서비스를 네 가지 범주 중 하나에 할당합니다.

    BCG 성장-점유율 매트릭스

    • 저성장, 낮은 시장 점유율/수익: 개(Dogs). 이러한 제품 또는 서비스는 당신을 짓누릅니다. 고객은 그것을 원하지 않고, 미래에 대한 전망은 희박합니다.
    • 저성장, 높은 시장 점유율/수익: 현금 젖소(Cash cows). 이것들은 신뢰할 수 있는 생산자이며, 돈을 벌어들입니다. 큰 성장을 보지 못할 수도 있지만, 돈이 계속 들어오는 한, 계속해서 제공합니다.
    • 고성장, 낮은 시장 점유율/수익: 물음표(Questions). 시장이 원하는지 확신할 수 없지만, 성장이 증가하고 있는 새로운 것을 가지고 있을 수 있습니다.
    • 고성장, 높은 시장 점유율/수익: 스타(Stars). 이것들은 당신의 포트폴리오의 록스타이며, 사업을 앞으로 나아가게 하는 동력입니다.

    혁신적인 프로세스 – 즉, 과거에 해왔던 것과는 완전히 알아볼 수 없을 정도로 전환하는 것 – 는 많은 자원을 소모합니다. 재교육, 새롭거나 다른 고객, 새롭거나 다른 프로세스 및 기술이 필요합니다. 즉, 포트폴리오에 현금 젖소와 스타가 많다면, 혁신은 이미 작동하고 있는 것에서 자원을 빼앗아갈 것입니다.

    포트폴리오가 개와 어쩌면 몇 마리의 현금 젖소로 가득 차 있을 때 혁신이 필요합니다. 현금 젖소는 청구서를 지불하고 불을 켜두지만, 개는 당신을 짓누르고, 미래에 대한 전망은 좋아 보이지 않습니다. 미래의 현금 젖소나 스타가 될 수 있는 물음표 범주에는 아무것도 없고, 스타 범주는 비어 있습니다.

    그 시점에 도달했을 때, 혁신은 좋은 아이디어입니다. 현금 젖소는 혁신에 자금을 지원할 수 있고, 혁신의 일부는 자원이 허용하는 한 빨리 개를 버리는 것입니다.

    3부: 혁신에서 AI의 역할

    이제 혁신 자체에 대한 지형을 파악했으므로 – AI는 견고한 기반이 없으면 상황을 복잡하게 만들기 때문에 – AI가 혁신에서 수행하는 역할에 대해 이야기할 수 있습니다.

    최근 AI 에이전트에서 논의했듯이 – AI가 에이전트에 미치는 영향을 이야기하기 전에 먼저 에이전트를 정의해야 했습니다 – 이제 AI 지원 혁신을 같은 방식으로 ëłź 수 있습니다. AI의 가장 먼저, 가장 분명한 응용 프로그램은 성장-점유율 매트릭스 또는 성장-수익 매트릭스에 할당하기 위해 가지고 있는 막대한 양의 정보를 소화하는 것입니다. 대부분의 회사의 경우 성장-수익 매트릭스를 구축하는 것이 더 쉬울 것입니다. 왜냐하면 무엇이 수익성이 있는지 알지만, 시장 점유율이 얼마나 되는지 모뼟 수 있기 때문입니다.

    회계 시스템에서 – 왜냐하면 그것이 이런 종류의 것에 대한 최고의 기록 시스템이기 때문에 – 제품 또는 서비스 라인별로 순이익과 전년 대비 성장을 내보내고, 그것을 간단한 플랫 스프레드시트로 만드십시오. 생성형 AI로 이 부분을 하려고 하지 마십시오. 모든 것을 엉망으로 만들 것입니다.

    다음과 같은 간단한 스프레드시트가 있으면:

    제품/서비스|순이익|전년 대비 성장
    |-|-|-|
    제품 A|5백만 달러|5%
    제품 B|2백만 달러|-3%
    제품 C|1백만 달러|12%
    제품 D|-1|4%
    제품 E|1천 2백만 달러|0%

    그런 다음 기존 스프레드시트 또는 Claude 3.7, OpenAI o1, Gemini 2 Flash Thinking 또는 기타 추론 모델과 같은 추론 모델을 사용하여 성장-수익/점유율 매트릭스를 구성하도록 합니다. 회사에 따라 수십 개 또는 수백 개가 있을 수 있으므로, 두어 개 이상인 경우 범주로 묶고 싶을 수 있습니다.

    2×2 매트릭스에 플롯하고 자신과 좋아하는 AI와 솔직한 대화를 나누십시오. 무엇이 보이십니까? 스타가 몇 개입니까? 개는 몇 개입니까?

    일단 이것을 완료하면 – ꡸댏고 이것은 회사 수준, 부서 수준, 심지어 팀 수준에서도 가능할 수 있다는 점을 명심하십시오 – 그런 다음 AI에게 당신이 있는 곳에서 더 많은 물음표를 갖게 되는 방법을 물어보십시오. 왜일까요? 성장-점유율 매트릭스에 대해 즉시 명확하지 않은 것 중 하나는 그것이 수명 주기이기도 하다는 것입니다.

    제품 및 서비스는 일반적으로 물음표로 시작합니다. 상황이 어떻게 진행되고 있는지 확신할 수 없지만, 고객이 그것을 요구하고 있습니다.

    결국 제품 시장 적합성을 달성하고 견고한 이익과 빠른 성장을 얻습니다. 스타가 됩니다.

    시간이 지남에 따라, 가능한 한 많은 시장 점유율 또는 이익을 확보합니다. 때로는 범주를 지배합니다. 때로는 그렇지 않습니다. 어느 쪽이든, 성장이 둔화됩니다. 수익성은 견고하게 유지되고, 스타는 현금 젖소가 됩니다.

    ꡸댏고 아무것도 변하지 않기 때문에 – 새로운 경쟁자가 시장에 진입하거나, 시장이 변화합니다 – 현금 젖소는 결꾭 개가 됩니다.

    이것이 생성형 AI가 들어오는 곳입니다. 각 제품 또는 서비스에 대한 예외적인 수준의 세부 정보(예: 이상적인 고객 프로필, 경쟁사, 제품/서비스별 기타 관련 정보)를 사용하여, AI에게 해당 제품/서비스를 스타로 유지하거나 다시 스타로 되돌릴 수 있는 신뢰할 수 있는 경로가 있는지 물어보십시오.

    그리고 그곳에서 혁신이 일어납니다. 현금 젖소를 다시 스타로 바꾸려면 무엇이 필요할까요? 그것은 새로운 성장을 필요로 합니다. 새로운 성장은 아직 해결하지 못한 시장에서 나오거나, 기존 시장이 당신에게서 다시 구매하도록 강요하는 핵심 제품/서비스의 변화에서 나옵니다.

    여기서 핵심은 제품/서비스의 시장 내 위치, 시장 트렌드, 무언가가 스타로 남지 않은 이유를 이해하는 데 도움이 되도록 생성형 AI에 엄청난 양의 세부 정보를 제공해야 한다는 것입니다.

    왜 AI일까요? 사람이 그냥 할 수 없을까요? 물론, 할 수 있습니다. 대형 컨설팅 회사는 정확히 이것을 수행하여 각 고객당 연간 수백만 달러를 벌어들입니다. 당신은 어떨지 모르겠지만, 저는 이런 종류의 컨설팅에 연간 수백만 달러를 쓸 여유가 없습니다. 수십억 달러 또는 수조 달러 규모의 회사가 아닌 기업의 경우, 대형 컨설팅 회사는 단순히 손이 닿지 않습니다.

    생성형 AI는 그렇지 않습니다.

    그것이 문제의 핵심입니다. 생성형 AI 자체가 당신의 사업을 혁신하지 못할 수도 있지만, 필요한 경우 혁신을 안내하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다. 그리고 평균 컨설팅 계약이 수년이 걸리고 수백만 달러가 드는 반면, 메가 기업이 아닌 기업을 위한 생성형 AI는 모든 규모의 회사에 동일한 일반적인 기능을 제공할 수 있습니다.

    생선에서 스마트 TV로, 배달 서비스에서 금융 기관으로, 오래된 것에서 새로운 것으로 – 만들어야 할 혁신을 식별한 후에는 생성형 AI에 계속해서 도움을 요청하십시오. 전략적 가이드, 부서별 작업 계획, 분기별, 팀 구성원별 작업 목록을 요청하십시오. ꡸ 마스터 전략 분석에서, 개와 소를 다시 스타로 바꾸거나, 다음 스타를 찞기 위해 필요한 모든 단계, 만들어야 할 모든 변경 사항을 도출할 수 있습니다.

    구체적인 예는 다음과 같습니다. 저는 개인적으로 (Trust Insights뼟 통해) 책, 기쥰 연설, 워크숍, 강좌와 같은 것들을 판매합니다, ꡸댏고 다른 형태의 전문성 개발. 강좌와 같은 일부는 스타입니다 – 수익성이 높고 빠르게 성장합니다. 기쥰 연설과 같은 일부는 현금 젖소입니다 – 수익성이 있지만, 크게 성장하지는 않습니다. ꡸댏고 책과 같은 일부는 개입니다. 책을 쓰는 데 걸리는 시간은 강좌를 만드는 데 걸리는 시간의 약 3배이며, 책은 동등한 강좌보다 수익성이 몇 배나 낮습니다.

    무엇이 빠져 있을까요? 맞습니다. 현재 저의 개인적인 제공 제품에는 물음표가 없습니다. 아직 빠른 성장이지만 수익성이나 시장 점유율이 의심스러운 범주에는 아무것도 없습니다. 그것이 저의 혁신 기회입니다. 그 범주에 무엇을 넣을 수 있을까요?

    생성형 AI와 함께 브레인스토밍하면서 그 범주에 무엇이 있을 수 있는지 생각해 볼 것입니다. 지난주 럼즈펠트 매트릭스를 사용한 예시를 사용할 수 있지만, BCG 성장-점유율 매트릭스에서 제가 좋아하는 것은 수익성과 성장에 초점을 맞춘다는 것입니다. 우리가 할 수 있는 모든 종류의 것들을 식별할 수 있지만, 그 중 얼마나 많은 것들이 수익성이 있을 가능성이 높을까요?

    4부: 마무리

    혁신에서 생성형 AI의 진정한 힘은 모든 것에 AI를 쑤셔 넣는 것이 아니고, AI를 뉴텔라처럼 취급하여 모든 것에 바르는 것이 아닙니다. 생성형 AI의 진정한 힘, 혁신적인 활용 사례는 혁신이 필요할 수 있는 곳, 최종 상태가 어떻게 보일 수 있는지, 그리고 결정적으로 거기에 도달하는 방법을 식별하는 데 도움을 줌으로써 혁신 자체를 가능하게 하는 것입니다.

    “제 업무에는 순이익이나 시장 점유율 또는 성장률이 없습니다”라고 말할 수도 있습니다. 괜찮습니다. 유사한 매트릭스에 맞출 수 있는 측정 기준이 많이 있습니다. Trust Insights TRIPS 매트릭스에는 5가지가 있습니다 – 작업에 걸리는 시간, 얼마나 반복적인지, 얼마나 중요한지, 얼마나 즐거운지, ꡸댏고 얼마나 많은 데이터를 가지고 있는지. 결과물을 기준으로 측정된다면, 기본적으로 시간은 ꡸ 결과물의 구성 요소입니다. 결곟돟 양과 결과물당 시간의 매트릭스를 구축한 다음, 동일한 방법론을 적용할 수 있습니다.

    어떤 형태의 업무든 정량화할 수 있는 측정 기준이 없는 업무는 없습니다. 가장 부패하고 쓸모없는 정치인조차도 뇌물 수와 그들이 받은 뇌물의 규모, 또는 그들이 저지른 범죄의 수와 규모를 측정할 수 있습니다.

    현재 상황, 당신 또는 당신의 회사가 시장에 가지고 있는 것을 파악하고, 생성형 AI를 사용하여 혁신적인 진화를 찾으십시오. 그렇게 하는 것이 타당하다면 말입니다.

    이것은 부지불식간에 시리즈가 되었으므로, 다음 주에는 생성형 AI와 경쟁 전략에 대해 살펴보겠습니다.

    뻔뻔한 홍보: 저희 회사 Trust Insights는 귀사와 같은 회사를 위해 이 일을 합니다. 귀사 사업의 수익 성장을 위한 혁신적인 솔루션을 고안하라는 요청을 받고 있고, 특히 AI가 관련되어 있고, 어떻게 해야 할지 확신이 서지 않는다면, 저희가 도와드리겠습니다.

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    더 많은 정보를 원하시면, 다음을 참고하세요:

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    이번 주에는 생성형 AI에 선호되는 형식에 대한 속성 코스를 통해 생성형 AI를 위한 데이터 준비에 대해 이야기했습니다.

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    다음은 Trust Insights 웹사이트에서 수강할 수 있는 강좌 중 일부입니다.

    프리미엄

    무료

    광고: 새로운 AI 강좌!

    마케터를 위한 프롬프트 엔지니어링 마스터하기는 프롬프트 엔지니어링에 대한 2시간 투어입니다. 첫 번째 몇 개의 모듈은 프롬프트가 무엇인지 뿐만 아니라, AI 모델 내부에서 프롬프트를 처리할 때 무슨 일이 일어나는지 살펴봅니다. 저는 설명을 비기술적으로 만들었지만 (저 말고 누가 소프트맥스 레이어와 어텐션 행렬을 정말로 좋아하겠어요), 워크스루는 상자 안에서 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는지 정말로 파고듭니다.

    그것을 아는 것은 프롬프트가 왜 작동하거나 작동하지 않는지 이해하는 데 도움이 됩니다. 강좌에서 프롬프트가 어떻게 처리되는지 보면 그 이유를 알 수 있습니다.

    그런 다음 3가지 프롬프트 프레임워크와 “고급” 😜 프롬프트 기술, ꡸댏고 각 기술이 무엇인지, 왜 관심을 가져야 하는지, 언제 사용해야 하는지, ꡸댏고 어떻게 사용해야 하는지에 대한 다운로드 가능한 가이드와 함께 살펴봅니다.

    그 후, 지식 블록과 프라이밍 표현, 그리고 프롬프트 라이브러리를 구축하고 관리하는 방법에 대해 알아봅니다.

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    광고: 무료 생성형 AI 치트 시트

    RACE 프롬프트 엔지니어링 프레임워크, PARE 프롬프트 개선 프레임워크, TRIPS AI 작업 식별 프레임워크 및 워크시트가 모두 포함된 Trust Insights 치트 시트 번들, 생성형 AI 파워 팩을 무료로 받으세요!

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    저희 회사 Trust Insights는 IBM, Cisco Systems, Amazon, Talkwalker, MarketingProfs, MarketMuse, Agorapulse, Hubspot, Informa, Demandbase, The Marketing AI Institute 및 기타 회사를 포함하되 이에 국한되지 않는 회사와 사업 파트너십을 유지하고 있습니다. 파트너로부터 공유된 링크가 명시적인 보증은 아니며, Trust Insights에 직접적인 금전적 이익을 제공하는 것도 아니지만, Trust Insights가 간접적인 금전적 이익을 받을 수 있는 상업적 관계가 존재하며, 따라서 저도 그로부터 간접적인 금전적 이익을 받을 수 있습니다.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Buy or Build Software in the Age of Generative AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Buy or Build Software in the Age of Generative AI?

    In this episode, learn how generative AI is revolutionizing the software industry. You will discover why companies are now building their own software, ditching expensive SaaS subscriptions. You’ll understand how AI is slashing software development time and costs, shifting the build versus buy balance. You will explore how this change impacts SaaS vendors and empowers businesses to create tailored solutions. Watch now to navigate the new era of software and make informed decisions for your tech stack.

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    In today’s episode, Lisa writes in, “I just saw a thing on LinkedIn about Klarna, the software company, kicking 1,200 SaaS providers to the curb, including Salesforce. And when you read the details, it says, Klarna, CEO, Sebastian Simiatowski—gosh, it’s a Polish name—casually dropped that the bombshell on an earnings call, that they’ve basically built their own. They use generative AI to build their own CRM, and so they’re dropping Salesforce.”

    So, what’s my take on it?

    Here’s the thing. The ongoing equation for software companies and SaaS in particular is build versus buy. That is always the balances. Which do we do? Do we build? Do we buy?

    When you buy it, you pay money, and in return, you don’t have to make the software. You don’t have to maintain the software. You don’t have to provide updates to the software. You don’t have to do anything to the software. It just happens for you.

    Now, there’s upsides to that. It’s lower maintenance. If you don’t have the technical talent in-house, you don’t have to maintain it. You have to fix bugs. You don’t have to worry about infrastructure. You don’t have to worry about security. All that should be taken care of by somebody else in exchange for lots of money. That’s a good model for a lot of people.

    When you build it, you don’t pay money to other people except maybe some infrastructure costs. You instead pay money to a developer. You pay money to a QA person, a product manager. You…is a product that you have to maintain internally. You’ve got to patch the bugs. You’ve got to keep it secure. You got to do all these things to make this thing run and stay running and be highly available and all that stuff.

    Here’s what’s different now in the world of generative AI. The equation is always, do we spend time and effort, or do we spend money? When you look at the time and effort in the era of generative AI, particular with tools like Ader or Klein or Cursor, any of these AI-enabled development tools, suddenly the scale starts to tilt because now you don’t need 5 or 10 or 15 developers or QA people to run an app. You might need one or two or maybe three, and it becomes a lot cheaper.

    On the flip side, one of the things with SaaS companies is you’re kind of stuck with them. That’s what SaaS companies are always talking about. How do we make our product more sticky? How do we make it harder for people to leave? How do we make it harder for people to change to a competitor? What can we offer in our product that makes it very difficult for someone to ever exit? That’s why for years, we’ve always said, if whatever vendor you’re working for, if there isn’t an export button that exports to like CSV files, don’t use that vendor because they’re trying to lock you in.

    When generative AI dramatically reduces development costs and QA costs and dramatically reduces the effort it takes to make changes or updates to a system and knows the best practices for securing a system, yeah, it suddenly starts to look more appealing. Here’s the thing, here’s the part that SaaS vendors don’t want to talk about at all: nobody has a moat. There is no moat anymore. There is no moat that prevents someone else from developing a competitor. Even if you’ve got your proprietary interface and all this stuff, the reality is CRM or marketing automation is an idea. You cannot copyright ideas.

    So, someone could take the idea, like, “Hey, I want a CRM that does this, this, this, this, and this. And I also want to do this that no vendor offers. I want to do this that no vendor offers,” and so on and so forth. You hand it to generative AI with the help of a skilled developer—please don’t do this without the help of a skilled developer, it will just go badly—make the thing. It will be exactly what you want. You have to still maintain it. You have to still work on the infrastructure. You have to still provide the security, the high availability, but the cost to create the thing is much, much lower.

    Back in the early 2000s, I worked to the financial services company. I was reasonably good at PHP, reasonably good at MySQL, and we built a custom CRM. It took me six months to build this thing with the web interface and the database and all the custom fields and stuff. Eventually we ended up hiring two or three more developers just to advance the thing because we hit a limit of my level of skill. Six months.

    When I think back to the product requirements of what was in version one that took me six months to build, with generative AI, I could probably build that in about a day, maybe two days, because I know exactly what the layout is. I know exactly the database layout is. I know what the requirements are for what it had to do. Yeah, it would take 8 to 12 hours instead of six months to make the same product.

    When build is 50%, 60%, 80% cheaper, by starts to look like a bad deal. Yes, there is the whole, let somebody else handle the mess for me, but more and more, generative AI is going to change that equation. If you are a SaaS company, assume that product is not the advantage anymore. Product can be very easily replicated.

    So, what else do you have that would differentiate you in an age when everybody can make your product? Is it the service? Is there unique data that your platform has access to that other people don’t have and that they couldn’t easily replicate? Is there a relationship? Do you have…does your software come with an account manager who knows the industry and can provide that expert-level, serve strategic advice? Is there downstream outputs that you can provide or upstream outputs that you can provide that, again, are very hard for generative AI to replicate?

    If you are a product-first company and you’re doing as much as you can to reduce your costs on support and stuff like that using AI, well, guess what? You are making it easier and easier for an AI system to reproduce your company, your crown jewel, the thing that makes you money, and it puts you at substantial risk, substantial risk.

    So, to answer Lisa’s question, what’s my take? My take is that SaaS companies have no moat when it comes to product and that the build versus buy equation is tilting dramatically in favor of build for product itself. What will allow a SaaS company to remain in business is all the stuff that isn’t product. If you are cutting costs everywhere with AI, then you are making yourself obsolete very, very quickly.

    It is incumbent upon every company that makes software as a product to say, what is our non-product advantage? And it is incumbent upon every company that uses software to sit down in question, should we build this, particularly, should we build this tailored to our industry? Should we build this tailored to our company?

    Think about something like Libra Office, the open-source office productivity suite, that is the open-source movement’s answer to Microsoft Word and Excel and all that stuff. It is very good. It has been very good for a very long time. Companies who are looking to save on licensing costs will use Libra Office. It’s cross-compatible with all major document formats. It’s very good. The same reason people use Google Docs.

    What would it look like? Because it’s open-source to take the Libra Office source code with detailed prompts from how you use office software and a coding environment like Ader or Klein or Cursor and say, remove all the stuff that we never use. And here’s a whole bunch of things that the legal profession uses. Let’s remove these features from the code base and make a slimmed-down, streamlined version of the software that is tailored for the work that we do. Or there’s this thing. I wish this software did that nobody’s software does. How do we build this into a fork of this for ourselves?

    This is one of the reasons why I think open-source software is so important for every company to understand what’s out there, what is freely available, what is things that you can modify, because in the past, yeah, you would have had to devote a dozen developers to tuning and maintaining open-source software for your company. Now it’s like one developer and generative AI. Suddenly that equation is very different.

    So, that’s my answer to Lisa’s question. If you are a company that uses software, you should be looking and reevaluating build versus buy. If you’re a company that makes software, you should be thinking about how customers might do an end run around you and then focusing on what are the advantages that you bring that are not software, even though you’re a software company.

    That’s going to do it for today’s episode. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: How to Explain AI Agents

    Mind Readings: How to Explain AI Agents

    In this episode, unlock the mystery of AI agents and understand what they truly are. You will discover the critical differences between AI agents, automations, and simple workflows. You’ll learn how to easily identify if you actually need an AI agent for your tasks. You will gain the knowledge to avoid overpaying for hyped-up automations disguised as agents. Watch now to master the concept of AI agents and make smarter technology choices.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about briefly and succinctly, how do you explain agents, particularly AI agents, but agents in general, succinctly. How do you explain it to somebody? How do you explain it to yourself?

    Let’s think about and go back to our product market fit levels. There’s three levels of product market fit. There’s services and products that are done by you. There are things that are done with you and things that are done for you.

    You see this in food. A recipe is done by you. You buy all the ingredients. You have the appliances. You’ve got the tools and stuff like that. Presumably you have the skills. You do all the cooking. The recipe tells you what to do, but you’ve got to provide everything.

    A meal kit is done with you. You get the big box in the mail and you unpack it and throw away the freezer packs and stuff like that. And it’s half cooked, and you do some of the cooking. You assemble some of it. A box of cake mix, most of the cake is done. You just got to add like an egg and some water and turn it into a cake. So that’s a kit. It’s done with you.

    And of course, a meal out is done for you. You do none of the cooking. You show up at the restaurant and you do nothing. It’s just you, you’re there only to receive the output.

    When we think about generative AI, when we think about agents, it’s kind of the same. A workflow is done by you. You might have a series of prompts and some data. So, you open up Chat GPT, and you copy and paste the first prompt and you wait for it to respond, and you copy and paste the next prompt and so on and so forth. You’re doing all the work. You’ve brought all the data. It’s like the appliance almost. You have to do everything, but you get the outcome and you’re happy with the outcome. That’s great. Very manually labor, labor-intensive.

    An automation is done with you. Maybe you have like a custom GPT that you’ve built that where there’s a long list of system instructions. You bring some stuff, but it already has some stuff built, and it just kind of half does the thing with you. You have to start and stop it, but it’s less work for you.

    An agent is done for you. You do nothing. The agent just does the thing. Maybe you’ve got an AI agent in Chat GPT that scans the news every morning and sends you an email: here’s the six things that you need to know that are happening in the news today. You don’t do anything. You just show up and like up there’s an email from my agent today saying here’s the six things I need to pay attention to. It’s all done for you. It’s all done for you. You have to do…you’re not there. You’re not part of the process.

    The reason agents are being so hyped right now is that the promise to the makers of the agents and the tech companies, there’s a lot more money. A meal out costs more than a meal kit. A meal kit costs more than a recipe. An agent costs more than an automation and an automation costs more than a workflow. It’s more compute-intensive. It uses a lot more resources.

    So, there’s a couple important things to keep in mind here. Number one, every great AI agent grows from an automation, which grows from a workflow. If you’re not sure about whether a task should be an agentic AI task or not, does it work in a workflow? If it doesn’t work with you copy and pasting it and doesn’t work reliably in Chat GPT, it ain’t going to work as an agent. You never want to start building an agent without first establishing in a workflow that the thing actually works.

    Second thing to be aware of, again, there’s a lot of hype about AI agents. Look carefully. Is it really an agent that you’re being sold or is it an automation? To be clear, there is nothing wrong with automations, nothing wrong with automations. They’re great unless someone has decided to charge you agent prices for something that isn’t an AI agent. A vendor hoping to slap “agent” on the label and Sharpie an extra zero on the cost, and it’s really an automation.

    Agents do it all without you there. If you have to show up and do something, it’s not an agent. It is an automation. If someone is charging you a premium for it because they’re calling it an agent and it’s really not, get out that correction fluid and erase that extra zero on the price tag. That’s going to do it for today’s episode.

    Thanks for tuning in. We’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: All You Have To Do Is Ask… AI

    Mind Readings: All You Have To Do Is Ask... AI

    In this episode, discover the secret to being productive with generative AI. You will learn how to ask the right questions to unlock AI’s true potential. You’ll understand how to blend your skills with AI’s strengths for optimal results. You will explore how to guide AI to achieve insightful outcomes in any task. Watch now to transform how you work with AI and boost your productivity.

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    All you have to do is ask.

    In today’s episode, let’s talk about the art of being productive with generative AI. The art of being productive with generative AI is the art of asking great questions. The art of asking great questions is rooted in the very Buddhist perspective of self-awareness. I’m putting your ego aside.

    Here’s an example. The other day, my friend Robin Summers asked me to look at a paper and a statistical analysis. Just to be clear, I did very, very, really in statistics in college. I had a professor who was really good at statistics. He was a really good researcher. He couldn’t teach it very well. Thank goodness he graded on a curve because I outright failed the class. Like my actual grade was 37. That’s how badly I did statistics.

    So, I know beyond any reasonable doubt that when it comes to statistics, AI is way smarter than I am. When I looked at Robbins data, I knew there was more juice that we could squeeze from it. She did a statistical analysis, and I looked at it and was like, there’s more we could do here, but I don’t know what. I didn’t know how to think about it. I didn’t have the techniques in my head. So, what we did was I cleaned the data. I prepped it, denormalized it, put it into a table, and then I handed it to Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 sonnet.

    Now, what I didn’t say to Claude was improve this analysis. Why? Because that’s assuming the original methods were correct, and I didn’t know if that was true. I had a feeling, but I didn’t know.

    So, I asked. I used this prompt exactly: “Next with the tabular data in the original paper and the information in the supplementary pieces, what algorithms or transformations could we apply to it to garner additional insights, the absence of new data? What statistical or data science methods might shed additional light and strengthen the original paper? Assume we have no additional data beyond what has already been provided.”

    Claude thought about it, gave me a nice long list. There were nine different statistical methods and candidates. It’s just things that we could do.

    So, I followed up and I said, “Which approach would be the most insightful for this data set, given the limitations? Rank the approach as you listed from most insightful to least insightful.”

    And it did. It went through and said, “Here’s the technique that we think, that I think works the best.” It said, “You should do survival analysis with Cox proportional hazards.” I have heard those terms, Cox proportional hazards. I don’t know what they mean because again, failed statistics. I can Google it, of course, but I said, it’s probably not the best use of my time to learn statistics in the moment.

    So instead, I said to Claude, “The data I uploaded, write a Python script to perform the survival analysis using Cox proportional hazards, plus the usual block of knowledge I include anytime I ask AI to write code.” It’s a 21-page list of best practices for Python coding stuff like PEP8 compliance or dry, which stands for “don’t repeat yourself” in code. It’s all these coding principles that I put together. Anytime I have AI write code, I give it that because, in addition to being terrible at statistics, I’m not a great coder, but I do know how to assemble a requirements document or a best practices document so that AI can be a much better coder than me.

    So, I did that. Claude spit out the Python script and then I ran it. Then you might be saying, well, generative AI can analyze data. Generative AI can’t do math. Never ask it to do math. When it does math, it either does two things: it guesses, which is almost always a disaster, or behind the scenes it writes code to execute to then do the math, which is a tremendous waste of resources.

    So instead, I said, write me the code and I’ll run it. So, it spit out the code. I ran the code. It spit out some visualizations, a final product. It processed the data and turned it into…

    I then uploaded the image, the charts and graphs that made back to Claude and said, “Now here’s the final results. Interpret it. Tell me what this means.”

    And it did. It said, “Hey, there’s the statistical effect that you were doing with just plain averages. When you do a Cox proportional hazards survival analysis, the effect is like 4X what the original method was.”

    That’s pretty cool. That’s a very solid analysis that revealed some pretty useful facts. I did not bring useful knowledge to the party this time, and I knew it. I knew it. I’m not a great coder, terrible statistician. So I had to put my ego aside and say, “You know what, Claude, you take the wheel.”

    And it did. In much of the task, it was just way better than me. That’s okay because what matters is not who’s the better coder or statistician. What matters is did I get the result? What I did bring was great questions. I brought a not a general knowledge of what needed to happen, breaking down the task myself into individual pieces so that the language model, the AI, could do the parts that it does best: referencing is extensive trained knowledge, writing analysis, writing code.

    I did the parts it doesn’t do best, like prepping the data, running the code, processing the math, steering the conversation. You can and should do the same.

    Models will continue to evolve and get ever more sophisticated and they’re capable of more and more. But there are some things that today’s generative AI models, because of the architecture of the model itself, it’s unlikely it’s ever going to do well, like math. The Transformers architecture that powers generative AI simply is inappropriate for math, no matter how smart the models get.

    So, your value as the human being, as the operator of the AI, is providing why you’re doing the task and then guiding in a way that maximizes its strengths while you handle its weaknesses, either by yourself as a human or with deterministic methods like writing code and doing math.

    But if you want to get the most out of AI, that’s how you do it. You let it do the parts it does best. You do the parts that you do best. And together, like peanut butter and jelly, you get the best results possible. That’s going to do it for today’s episode.

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