AI in the workplace is here – and it’s time to get on board
How can your organisation realise the potential of AI?
The integration of AI into the workplace presents a generational opportunity for professionals to enhance productivity, redefine their roles, and find greater meaning in their work. By delegating routine tasks to AI, knowledge workers can focus on the aspects of their jobs that they find most rewarding, augmenting and capitalising on their human strengths.
Our primary focus is providing strategic guidance to help organisations navigate the immediate and medium-term opportunities and implications of AI. We build on our existing strengths in change management, organisational performance, and culture to help organisations effectively adapt to and implement AI solutions. This includes helping set principles and guidelines for AI use, establishing the right organisational structures and roles, and driving adoption and upskilling.
We are optimistic about the potential of AI but remain realistic and pragmatic in our approach to its implementation. We recognise the limitations and challenges of AI and avoid overhyping its capabilities. We are not your run-of-the-mill tech-utopian hype merchants.
What does the future look like? Let us show you
The arrival of generative AI in the workplace represents a strategic challenge and opportunity. Our AI-centric version of the Nous Organisation Architecture Framework (NOAF) has been designed to spark discussion about how AI might improve performance, support your mission, and reinforce your vision. It encourages organisations to approach implementation holistically, ensuring alignment with their overall goals at every level.
We are practicing what we preach...
At Nous, our AI Studio leads the development of internal tools that embed GenAI in group-wide processes, while also creating bespoke, project-specific solutions upon request from individuals and teams. Our leaders encourage AI adoption through communication and behaviour modelling. As development and uptake accelerate, we expect to see our people adapt with intention and become as used to working with and alongside AI as they are with any other tool in their repertoires.
...and are pushing the conversation forward
Nous is playing a leading role in broader public discussions about AI. In 2024, we hosted the first of our Human Side of Generative AI Summits for executive-level leaders and sponsored the CEDA National AI Leadership Summit. We hold targeted discussions with regulators to discuss the application of AI in regulation and run roundtables with leading not-for-profits that explore the technologies applications. We are keeping our finger on the pulse and following each new development with interest. We are a member of aicolab.org and regularly publish our cutting-edge thinking about how organisations can reap the benefits of this exciting moment.
The Human Side of Generative AI Summit
Our latest thinking on AI in the workplace
David Diviny
Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Head of AI
David is a leading strategic thinker on the application of Generative AI in the public sector.
Brenden Carriker
Principal
Brenden is a leader in public sector innovation with extensive experience in strategy, engagement, human-centred design, transformation and change.
Sudipto Sarkar
Principal
Sudipto is a strategy and transformation advisor with 20 years of experience advising in customer and technology strategy, tech-enabled transformation and performance improvement.
Will Prothero
Principal
Will is a strategy and transformation advisor with 19 years of digital transformation experience in the public sector.
Michael Rathjen
Principal
Michael is an experienced advisor across digital strategy, policy and technology-enabled transformation. He is passionate about to role of technology in improving outcomes for people, government and organisations.
Darren Leafe
Principal
Darren has worked in education, government and the public sector for over 25 years. He designs, develops and delivers customer-centric digital solutions that deliver long-lasting change
Sophie O’Connor
Principal
Sophie is expert in strategy, business transformation and public policy. She works with private and public sector clients to understand their requirements and develop innovative and lasting solutions.
Trish Woolley
Principal
Trish has more than 20 years of experience in management of human services for state and federal governments, including complex reform, strategy and operations.