The Green Room podcast
Are we planning enough for AI?
AI can make today’s work faster. But the bigger opportunity lies in reinventing how the work gets done.
Are we redesigning work, or automating the way it already happens?
Disruption isn’t new. But right now, it feels different.
Technology, economic pressure, geopolitical uncertainty and changing workforce expectations are converging, increasing the complexity leaders need to navigate. And at the heart of that shift is AI.
Implementing AI in firms means challenging long-held assumptions, rethinking how value is created and a reinvention of traditional ways of working. Because as access to AI becomes more widespread, it won’t be the technology that sets organisations apart – it will be how it’s used.
In this episode, Bruce Daisley and Kate Sweeney explore the limits of traditional organisational models, the difference between efficiency and transformation, and what better collaboration between people and AI could look like in practice.
Watch below, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the transcript here.
I think the organisations that are winning are absolutely experimenting… So how do you experiment, but then orchestrate that as well? How do you make sure you're sharing learnings very rapidly across the organisation?
Kate Sweeney – Human Capital Consulting leader, Deloitte UK
“How do we completely rethink?”
Using AI to reproduce an existing process may make that process faster. But it rarely unlocks the full value of the technology.
According to Kate Sweeney, it’s not a question of “how do we use AI to do what we do today?”, but rather “how do we completely rethink it?”
Because when firms think differently – reinventing how they work – a competitive advantage starts to emerge. According to Deloitte’s 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report, 67% of leaders say their primary advantage over the next three years will come from being fast and nimble.
AI has the power to help firms change how work gets done, making previously scarce capabilities widely available. Changing old assumptions on how effectively work can be performed, and at what speed and capacity – the classic speed-quality-cost triangle of strategy.
But, if firms want to grasp the opportunity, it won’t mean firms asking AI and their teams to work within the current structures. It will require planning for new fluidity in how they operate. Bringing together skills and expertise with AI across the firms to work in ways that orchestrates resources and can lead to improved speed, quality and cost – not just two of the three as traditional models allowed.
Read Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report now to find out more about the orchestration challenge facing firms.
“We're going to go to an era where work looks very different.”
Bruce Daisley – a future of work expert who has led YouTube in the UK and Twitter across Europe, the Middle East and Africa – can see a barrier to change emerging though.
“I understand it – we all hang on certain dependabilities” he explained. But dependencies on our current routines and our working styles might be the thing holding us back from really embracing an AI future that drives not just productivity, but transformation.
From his experience, people are showing a discomfort with the idea that their “working week isn’t constructed around your calendar to the same extent”. But, he continues, “if you’re uncomfortable with breaking away from this rigid way that your work looks now, then I suspect you're not going to be prepared for these changes and these disruptions.”
Yet thinking differently, challenging old beliefs, reimagining teams and redefining what value is can set organisations apart and allow AI to scale beyond personal productivity benefits.
Will AI agents give us more agency?
Hear more from Bruce Daisley and Kate Sweeney as they discuss why disruption feels more continuous, where established organisational models are reaching their limits and how leaders can rethink the relationship between technology, people and work.
How is AI reshaping work – and the way it gets done? What does good human and AI collaboration look like day to day? And if everyone has access to AI, what will truly differentiate businesses?
Watch below, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the transcript here.
The promise of AI is it's going to be more focussed on... agency. Whether it's AI agency or whether it's human agency, it’s getting stuff done.
Bruce Daisley – future of work expert
Former EMEA VP, Twitter and UK lead, YouTube
Let’s make this work.
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