AI-Augmented Decisions

Mike Baxter’s new book

AI-Augmented Decisions: A Practical Guide

Helping you make faster, smarter, better decisions using generative AI platforms.

Do you find yourself having to make high-stakes strategic decisions in an increasingly complex world? Are you, perhaps, trying to evolve your workforce, transform your services or expand into new sectors or markets? Have you also been wondering for some time now just how AI is going to make a real difference to your own ways of working? If so, this is the book for you!

Who is this guide for?
This guide is designed for strategists and decision-makers who need to navigate high-impact, high-complexity choices in today’s fast-moving environment. This book can help you in the following ways:

1. It gives you a five-phase process for making faster, smarter, better decisions. This robust decision-making process has been designed around key principles established from decades of design thinking, complexity theory and decision science.
2. It offers five free downloadable super-prompts to enable your big decisions to be augmented by the AI of your choice. See our Complete Guide to Super-prompts.

No prior AI experience is needed – from choosing and setting up your AI platform to crafting effective prompts, this guide takes you through every stage, giving you everything you need to start making faster, smarter, better decisions, with AI’s help.

You will find below links to pdfs of all the free resources in AI-Augmented Decisions: A Practical Guide.

Super-prompts:

1. Decision Scoping Super-prompt.
2. Decision Preparation Super-prompt.
3. Decision-Making Workshop Super-prompt.
4. Decision Validation Super-prompt.
5. Decision Adoption Super-prompt.

Full transcripts of Mike’s conversation with his chosen AI for the case study example, ‘Choosing the holiday of a lifetime’:

1. Decision Scoping conversation.
2. Decision Preparation conversation (see also Holiday Destination Comparison Deep Research).
3. Decision-Making Workshop conversation.
4. Decision Validation conversation.
5. Decision Adoption conversation.

DISCLAIMER

It is the central premise of Mike’s book that AI is now capable of usefully and valuably augmenting human decision-making for high-impact, high-complexity decisions.

The important disclaimer, however, is that this book is all about using AI to enable humans to make faster, smarter, better decisions, not for AI to make the decisions on our behalf.

DECISION-MAKING IS ALWAYS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HUMANS. AIs MAKE ASSUMPTIONS AND MISTAKES – ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK THEIR RESPONSES.

The use of AI tools can also introduce new types of data security issues, not necessarily raised by other types of technology. Before using any of the AI techniques described in the book, please make sure you are acting in compliance with your own organisation’s AI policies and standards. If you don’t have any such policies and standards, guidance on data and security issues can be found from The National Cyber-Security Centre in the USA or from the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK.

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