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From AI Strategy to Human + AI Teams That Deliver

When Strategy Meets Reality

I've been reflecting lately on what it really takes to move from "AI strategy" to "Human + AI teams that deliver."

I ran into this most recently in my role as Chief Innovation Officer at MedPro. We had a challenge in our current tech stack. The data, structure, and systems wouldn't support the client insights we needed.

The first steps we had to take — gain a deep understanding of our data and the inherent challenges with it.


The Problem

A few small problems: No documentation, no dedicated data team, and no resources available to tackle the challenge.

Luckily we had three things going for us:

  1. We had just hired a strong Business Intelligence Analyst
  2. I had 6 years of healthcare staffing domain expertise
  3. Both of us were open to using AI-enabled tools to enhance our speed, depth, and strategy (and I had already been using Replit as an analytics co-pilot)

The Result

Fast forward to 2 months later and we delivered a Production Data Warehouse with schemas that would allow us to deliver the insights we needed.

All it took was a little creativity, some human insight, a bit of AI assistance, and two open minds.