How can we use AI to make our IDS process in Level 10 Meetings more efficient without losing the healthy debate of our leadership team?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The IDS portion of your Level 10 Meeting is where your leadership team gets cohesive and solves the real issues holding the business back. This process requires healthy conflict, open debate, and deep human alignment. You should never let AI solve your issues for you. However, you can use AI to prepare for IDS more effectively. Often, issues on the Issues List are vague or poorly defined, leading to wasted time during the meeting. Before the meeting, the person raising the issue can use AI as a sounding board to clarify the problem. The AI can help them structure the issue by asking clarifying questions, analyzing relevant data points, and identifying potential root causes based on historical precedents. This allows the team member to bring a well-defined, clear issue to the table, rather than a vague complaint. Additionally, if you have chronic, recurring issues, you can feed past meeting notes into an AI to spot trends and hidden patterns that the human eye might miss over several months. By using AI to clarify and identify the patterns, your leadership team can spend their face-to-face time discussing and solving the problems with maximum efficiency.