
Access to the C-Suite: AI strategies to enter the boardroom and prepare students for success in foresight fieldwork
This paper addresses a source of consternation regarding the institutional risks of sending students into the field ill-prepared to meet the expectations of external stakeholders. The authors provide one way — of perhaps many emerging ways — to harness new tools in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to augment learning and support the use of live cases in the context of fieldwork. The primary contribution of this paper is in articulating a learning tool that overcomes the “behind closed doors” problem, namely, that engaging meaningfully in C-suite conversations is hard. A solution, described in this reflections-in-practice piece, was to prompt engineer AI to create a “Chief Operations Bot” (COB) to simulate a C-suite executive: The student-faculty team input hand-selected, industry-specific, firm-generated documentation and, after asking ChatGPT to “roleplay” the COO, the student queries this COB in an exploratory fashion embedded in a contained, consequence-free learning environment. The audience for this paper is faculty responsible for overseeing student engagement experiences like fieldwork, as well as department heads and school deans looking to promote new tools and advance novel approaches to AI in their units. Additionally, students engaging in- or preparing for- fieldwork may feel adrift, insufficiently prepared, or lacking data, and may find utility in advancing their own independent learning by using aspects of this paper. In our concluding remarks, we survey the potential of this model and speculate on its application to augment learning in preparation for student fieldwork in foresight and beyond.
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Work Title | Access to the C-Suite: AI strategies to enter the boardroom and prepare students for success in foresight fieldwork |
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License | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) |
Work Type | Research Paper |
Publication Date | July 2024 |
DOI | doi:10.26207/ee1w-nq56 |
Deposited | July 11, 2024 |
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