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id: "action-seek-cross-industry-analogies"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ 2. A network of partners"]
tags: ["innovation", "research"]
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action: "Study AI implementations in unrelated industries to find analogous solutions for your own operational challenges."
outcome: "Identification of mature, de-risked AI use cases that can be adapted to your specific operations."
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/01/what-companies-succeeding-with-ai-do-differently"
source_title: "What Companies Succeeding with AI Do Differently"
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sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
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articleStem: "hbr-cl-89-companies-succeeding-with-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/01/what-companies-succeeding-with-ai-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What Companies Succeeding with AI Do Differently"
---
# Seek Cross-Industry AI Analogies

**Action:** Actively study how companies in entirely different sectors apply AI. Attend **cross-industry conferences** and read **broad journals** to find analogous use cases (e.g., applying pharma molecular-mapping techniques to mining chemical compounds) rather than reinventing the wheel.

**Expected outcome:** Identification of mature, **de-risked** AI use cases adaptable to your operations.

Operationalizes [[concept-cross-industry-ai-analogies]] under pillar #2 of [[framework-four-pillars-of-ai-success]]; canonical case [[entity-freeport-mcmoran]].