For the past couple of years, most of us have gotten used to a certain rhythm with AI: you ask it a question, it gives you an answer, and the exchange ends there. That is the chatbot model, and it has already changed how I research and write. But a newer term is...
What a 1977 Science Fiction Novel Can Teach Economic Developers Today Nearly fifty years ago, author Thomas J. Ryan imagined a computer program that escaped the boundaries its creator intended for it. In his 1977 novel, The Adolescence of P-1, Ryan introduced P-1, a...
Building a Target BRE List With AI, Start to Finish Business retention and expansion work lives and dies on the quality of your call list. Visit the right employers in the right order and you catch expansions early and head off closures before they are announced....
For most of my career, the arithmetic of consulting was stable. Work took the time it took, and price tracked effort closely enough that nobody had to think hard about the relationship. AI broke that arithmetic. A deliverable that once cost me three days of assembly...
Charity Fund Raising Most of the time I write in this space about putting artificial intelligence to work in economic development, targeting industries, building lead lists, and sharpening our research. But the same tools that help us serve our clients can serve our...