A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
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A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 20, 202628 min

Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI? It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, grounded in experience and expertise, provides relief. But how do you get that wisdom? If you’re KPMG, you turn to your own secret weapon, Stephanie Kim, who leads Signals & Strategy, to combine the firm’s intelligence AND the steady stream of data from the outside INTO a cogent worldview. Tracking, distilling, and interpreting signals has been Kim’s focus for years. If this were a s...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. I'm Julie Anekster. And I'm Dan Hill. And this is Real Transformations, Business Change from the Inside Out.

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And today we have somebody who has her finger on a lot of changes. My friend, Stephanie Kim from KPMG, where you are head of signals and strategy. So welcome, Stephanie. Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Dan.

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Thank you, Dan. It's great to be here and thank you so much for having me. Well, I want to start out, you know, I think everybody knows what strategy is and I, because I've had a little bit of a balcony view of the work you do, I think I understand signals.

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