Preface: The Co-Intelligent Org

Today I launch the co-intelligent organisation book. It will be written in public, learning and looping and sensing as I go.

Preface:

These are the questions guiding me. They came after I wrote The Helix Moment, which was about strategy, design, and AI. I had spent twenty years in strategy and design, and I wanted to understand how AI changes that work. The Helix Moment was my answer.

But then I came to the next question. It is not just strategy and design. It is the entire organisation. How do we change all of it?

Co-intelligence

The word that unlocked it for me was co-intelligence.

Ethan Mollick wrote a book by that name, and his argument struck me. We — humans — have to change. We have to learn how to work with AI, not against it, not under it, not around it. Mollick wrote at the individual level. The centaur. The cyborg. How I get smarter.

I came to it from the design side, where co-design has been part of how I work for years. Co-design taught me that you cannot design for people; you have to design with them. Co-intelligence read the same way to me. You cannot deploy AI at an organisation. You build something with it.

But organisations are not individuals. The question for a CEO is not "how do I use ChatGPT?" The question is: how do we redesign workflows, teams, structures, governance — for a world where intelligence is abundant?

We have learned how to be co-intelligent individuals.

Now we have to learn how to build co-intelligent collectives.

That is what this book is about.

Go to the book Preface to read the whole thing.

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