Why you should be using AI
Posted on December 6, 2024 by Kayleigh Wilkinson
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming workplaces across the globe, offering numerous benefits that enhance efficiency and productivity. From automating routine tasks to providing valuable insights, AI is becoming an indispensable tool for businesses.
The integration of AI in the workplace offers numerous benefits, from automating routine tasks to enhancing decision-making and improving customer service. By leveraging AI, businesses can boost efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness. As AI technology continues to evolve, its potential to transform the workplace will only grow, making it an essential tool for future success.
Here’s a look at how AI can benefit your workplace and some examples of its impact:
Automating Routine Tasks
One of the most significant benefits of AI is its ability to automate repetitive and mundane tasks. This automation frees up employees to focus on more strategic and creative work. For example, AI-powered chatbots can handle customer inquiries, schedule appointments, and manage basic administrative tasks, reducing the workload on employees.
Enhancing Decision-Making
AI can analyse and summarise vast amounts of data or lengthy reports quickly and accurately, providing insights that help in making informed decisions. For instance, AI algorithms can predict market trends, customer preferences, and potential risks, enabling businesses to make proactive and data-driven decisions.
Streamlining Recruitment Processes
AI can significantly streamline the recruitment process by automating resume screening, scheduling interviews, transcribing and summarising video interviews. This helps HR teams to identify the best candidates more efficiently and reduces the time-to-hire.
Examples of tools which embrace AI to enhance their offerings
- Customer Support: Companies like Amazon use AI-powered chatbots to handle a large volume of customer inquiries, providing quick resolutions and freeing up human agents for more complex issues.
- Project Management: Tools like Asana and Trello integrate AI to predict project timelines, allocate resources efficiently, and identify potential delays.
- Data Analysis: Businesses use AI platforms like IBM Watson to analyse large datasets, uncovering insights that drive strategic decisions and innovation.
Real life examples of AI benefits in the workplace
Example 1 – Social Media Manager – “AI helps me create images which make my posts more engaging, it helps me understand the best times to post and the most relevant topics at the moment, it can help me make my post more insightful, witty, serious as needed.”
Example 2 – Wellbeing Lead – “I use AI to help me write lengthy company policies. By having AI create the initial outlines of the policy before I personalise for my business, I save so much time. I also use it to create mental health campaigns and posters.”
Example 3 – Executive Assistant – “AI benefits both me and my executive. Using AI to summarise lengthy reports for my executive ahead of important meetings which save my Executive lots of time in their day. I can use it to create templates for repeating tasks such as event planning and travel planning which helps ensure consistency in my work.”
Example 4 – IT Manager – “AI helps me proactively identify and address potential cybersecurity threats before they become a problem. By using AI-powered tools, I can monitor network traffic, detect anomalies, and automate patch management, ensuring our systems remain secure and compliant with regulations.”
Example 5 – Marketing Specialist – “AI revolutionises my approach to campaign creation. It analyses customer data to identify trends and preferences, enabling me to personalise content and optimise ad spend. With AI-powered predictive analytics, I can anticipate campaign performance and adjust strategies in real-time for better ROI.”
Where to start.
If you want to use AI in your organisation but you don’t know where to start, there are a couple of easy next steps.
Either schedule the ramsac ‘Harnessing AI: Leadership Masterclass’ for your senior leadership team (this is usually delivered at a venue of your choice), or perhaps start by sending a couple of people on the open version of that session, which runs every month at our Guildford offices. This will not only train attendees in how to get the best out of the more common AI platforms, but it is also the first step in creating an AI strategy for your organisation. To book, please talk to your relationship manager or visit www.ramsac.com/ai
Secondly, feel free to download our prompting guides, designed to support the different job roles/functions in your workplace, these can be found here: www.ramsac.com/prompting
The impact of AI is huge, and truly exciting for everyone. Don’t delay any longer, take action and start on this productivity journey.
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