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Topic: Customer Value Chain and AI in Business

Guest: Talis Tashera, ex-Harvard MBA Professor and advisor to companies including early Facebook.

Key Points:

1. Customer Value Chain:
   • Identify customer problems before creating solutions.
   • Avoid forcing a customer problem onto a trendy product.
   • Use frameworks to structure business ideas in the AI era.
2. AI Implementation:
   • AI should be used to solve real customer problems, not just for hype.
   • Companies should focus on areas that provide the most impact.
   • Importance of choosing the right AI partner (e.g., McDonald’s and IBM example).
   • Test AI solutions thoroughly to ensure they reduce cost, time, and effort.
3. AI for Startups:
   • Focus on narrow activities within the customer value chain.
   • Disrupt by solving activities incumbents perform poorly (e.g., PayPal’s focus on payments).
   • Use decoupling to identify and solve specific customer problems.
4. Decoupling:
   • Break down the customer value chain to find specific problems.
   • Classify activities into value-creating, value-capturing, and value-eroding.
   • Innovate by creating more value, eliminating eroding activities, or reducing capturing activities.
5. Finding Problems to Solve:
   • Start with problems you understand or have experienced.
   • Validate the problem exists for others.
   • Use surveys, interviews, and industry experience to identify weak links.
   • Innovate in business models, not just technology.
6. Getting the Word Out:
   • Target people based on the problems they have.
   • Sell the problem, not the solution or brand.
7. Business Model Changes in the Age of AI:
   • Use AI strategically to enhance value drivers.
   • Educate employees on AI’s role in freeing up time for higher-value activities.
   • Redirect displaced employees towards new opportunities.
8. Advice for Executives and Founders:
   • Consider AI in terms of generative, predictive, and automation strategies.
   • Focus on using AI to save money, time, and effort.
   • Leverage human capital for tasks AI cannot perform.

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