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AI, Trust, and Innovation with Gijs van Wulfen (opens the original)
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Innovation consultant Gijs van Wulfen, creator of the FORTH innovation method, author, and keynote speaker, returns to the AEC Business podcast ten years after his first appearance. This time the topic is AI, and his message is clear: AI has changed the speed of innovation, but not its fundamentals. We discuss why generating a thousand ideas is no longer the problem, and why AI can never take ownership of an innovation. Gijs explains why he calls replacing people with AI "window dressing" for co
RONI: What You Lose by Not Investing in AI (opens the original)
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AI strategist Sam Zolfagharian returns to explain the metric one top ENR engineering firm, Wade Trim, uses instead of ROI: RONI, the Risk of Not Investing. She argues that asking for AI's return after a year or two is the wrong test, and that firms need different measurements at each stage of maturity. Activity counts at inception, changed workflows at integration, and only at transformation does dollar ROI make sense. Also covered: agent adoption at scale, token costs against employee effort, a
From Dark Data to Building Intelligence (opens the original)
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Dive into AI innovations in real estate with insights from Mark Sorsa-Leslie on connecting data and enhancing building maintenance.
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