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AI and Permanent Transformation: From Computing Power to the Power of Collective Imagination

  • Writer: Laurence DARRIEUMERLOU
    Laurence DARRIEUMERLOU
  • Oct 9
  • 3 min read

Artificial intelligence is not just another technological revolution. It is a deep undercurrent reshaping the way organizations think, decide, and learn. But to truly benefit from it, it is not enough to integrate AI tools: it must be connected to the company’s strategy and a dynamic of continuous transformation.


AI Has No Vision. It Amplifies Yours.

AI has no vision of its own: it amplifies the vision of the organization that uses it.

Without purpose, it does not create value, it consumes it.

Technology does not replace strategy, it tests it.

It is not AI that transforms the company, it is the company that transforms itself with AI and thanks to its collective intelligence.

Integrating AI within a logic of permanent transformation means learning to exploit, explore, and continuously nourish strategic thinking.

Every approach must begin with clarifying “who we are” and “where we want to go.”


AI as a Tool for Augmented Exploration

AI becomes a tool for exploration and augmented intelligence.

It expands our capacity for analysis and understanding by:

  • Capturing weak signals,

  • Aggregating multiple data sources: scientific, economic, human, semantic,

  • Connecting worlds that were once separate: research, field operations, marketing, engineering.

AI offers companies an unprecedented power: creating transversal connections between knowledge areas.

It fosters the emergence of new combinations that generate value and revolutionizes the concept of the learning organization, placing exploration and knowledge at the heart of strategic rhythm.

Organizations no longer progress solely by planning, but by continuous learning — transforming data into knowledge and knowledge into collective action.


Generating New Questions

The greatest added value of AI is not producing answers but generating new questions. In a world where everything is accelerating, the ability to question complexity becomes a competitive advantage.

Through its analytical power and capacity for cross-referencing, AI reveals blind spots, opens up hypotheses, and sheds light on unexpected perspectives.

AI is not a machine for answering;it is an amplifier of questioning and collective creativity.

It pushes organizations to think differently, to reformulate priorities, to imagine possible futures. In this sense, it becomes a key driver of permanent transformation: not to predict the future, but to better imagine it together.


AI as a Strategic Mirror

With a clear vision, AI becomes an accelerator of innovation and meaning.

It helps the company reinvent itself by opening new perspectives for creating economic, human, and environmental value.

AI becomes a strategic mirror: revealing strengths, blind spots, and interdependencies.

By simulating scenarios and proposing alternatives, it nourishes vision and helps structure transformation. But to do so, we must learn to dialogue with it: formulate clear intentions, ask relevant questions, and direct its uses toward the company’s purpose.


AI in Permanent Transformation: Turning Computing Power into Strategic Advantage

We are entering a world where computing power is becoming a competitive lever as decisive as energy was in the last century. Companies like Citadel Securities, Moderna, or Amadeus have built their lead on their ability to turn computing power into strategic advantage.

But the real question lies elsewhere: “What would you do with computing power a thousand times greater? How would your organization use it?” This question, both technological and existential, invites every company to revisit three fundamental dimensions:

  • Creating Value: Redefine the value proposition in the cognitive era.

  • Producing Value: Transform modes of action and cooperation.

  • Capturing Value: Imagine new economic and collaborative models.


Moving from computing power to the power of collective imagination, that is the true challenge of permanent transformation.


AI does not replace us. It invites us to become smarter together.

 

 
 
 

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