In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, KASKO CEO & Co-Founder Nikolaus Sühr and VIG Platform Partners CEO Dr. Ronald Engel speak with Niels Van Quaquebeke, Professor of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at Kühne Logistics University and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter. They explore why AI adoption is ultimately a leadership challenge rather than a technology problem, and what happens when management, coordination, and organisational design become increasingly AI-enabled.
Here are some of the key topics discussed in the episode:
- why most organisations still fail to extract consistent value from AI despite massive investment
- how AI exposes weaknesses in leadership, coordination, and organisational design
- what the “AI productivity paradox” means for insurers and knowledge-driven businesses
- why employees resist automation when leaders cannot articulate the future of work
- how middle management roles may fundamentally change in AI-first organisations
- what parts of leadership AI can already augment, automate, or outperform
- why coordination and collective alignment may remain uniquely human leadership tasks
- how AI changes decision-making, judgment, and evidence-based management
- what insurers can learn from AI-driven organisational redesign experiments
- why asking better questions may become more valuable than having all the answers
- how leaders can redesign workflows instead of running endless AI experiments
- what an “AI-first” operating model could mean for financial services firms
A thoughtful discussion on the future of leadership, management, and organisational design in an AI-enabled economy.
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