Olivier Zara
Architect of Complex Decisions – Decision-Making Excellence, Collective Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence
Speaker for several schools in Soft Skills programs including HEC Paris Executive Education, CentraleSupélec, ESSEC Executive Education, Terra Academia, Training Center for Management of the Ministry of Armed Forces, Léonard De Vinci University Pole, Polytechnic Institute of Advanced Sciences, UM6P (Morocco) and CESI. After 25 years of practice, I invented my profession: architect of complex decisions. My mission is to help organizations manage their decision-making risks on collective issues involving many stakeholders. When everyone knows, but no one knows for sure, I propose advanced techniques such as Digital Sprint (written roundtable in a secure exchange space to maintain psychological safety) and Strategic Co-development to enhance a group's cognitive capacities (augmented collective intelligence). I train leaders and managers on 15 techniques and 17 skills so that they become the architects of their complex decisions in full autonomy. I have published 15 books including: Decision Makers, are you good or lucky?, The leader always listens first, Decision-Making Excellence, The Tea Strategy, and The Management of Collective Intelligence.
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Manage Decision-Making Risks with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence will not replace managers, but those who misuse it or refuse to use it will be replaced because it paves the way for augmented intelligence. Generative artificial intelligence contributes to solving complex problems: strategy, performance development (sales, production, innovation), transformation, reorganization (collective efficiency), or engineering. However, it must be used with caution: - It is incapable of effectively grasping human factors (culture, emotions, latent or implicit needs, power dynamics, conflicts) and specific constraints; - It is very limited in its ability to hybridize ideas on collective issues involving many stakeholders who do not speak the same language, do not have the same vision of a situation, and have different interests; - Its systemic understanding of issues is virtually non-existent; it tends to think in silos; - It struggles to anticipate difficulties that will arise at the time of implementing a decision and subsequently over the lifespan of the decision. A brilliant decision that is not easy to implement or becomes obsolete quickly may not be as brilliant as it seems! Thus, AI must be part of an augmented intelligence approach. The challenge is not to choose between human and machine, but to combine collective, cognitive, and systemic intelligences. In this conference, we will propose a rigorous approach to secure your decisions on collective issues. This conference will allow you to understand: >> Why exclusive reliance on artificial intelligence for decision-making poses a major risk >> How to effectively combine collective intelligence, cognitive intelligence (generative AI and knowledge management), and systemic intelligence to create the conditions for augmented intelligence >> How to avoid cognitive biases, risky decisions, and fads related to AI
Become an Architect of Complex Decisions
How to make informed decisions when one cannot distinguish between the expert and manager posture, between simple, complicated, and complex situations, between consensus and intuition, between decision-making and decision design, between experiencing the field and seeing the field, between juxtaposing ideas and hybridizing ideas? Successfully implemented for over ten years in large groups, decision-making excellence is a powerful approach to managing decision risks in a complex and uncertain environment. It allows for the integration of everyone's expertise in the co-construction of a decision that is both flexible and robust: capable of adaptation while maintaining focus on the objective to be achieved. The synergy of expertise will create sustainable collective engagement by enabling swift action… in the right direction! This conference will allow you to understand: >> How to manage decision risks in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability >> How to ensure the highest level of engagement in the implementation of decisions on collective issues (strategy, reorganization, transformation) >> How to better manage the increasing complexity of organizations and their environment through the appropriation of new co-construction modalities and a framework of 17 competencies The video presents a summary of the conference in 17 minutes: