---
id: "framework-living-intelligence-positioning"
type: "framework"
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Position Your Organization to Succeed"]
tags: ["strategic-planning", "organizational-change"]
related: ["concept-living-intelligence", "action-ask-what-if", "action-identify-pilots", "claim-ai-myopia", "question-regulatory-frameworks"]
speakers: ["Amy Webb"]
steps: ["\\\"Demystify living intelligence for the entire organization: Senior leaders must familiarize themselves with how AI", "advanced sensor data", "and bioengineering intersect.\\\"", "Develop pragmatic scenarios for disruption and new value generation: Use strategic foresight to map near and long-term impacts of these technologies on existing products and processes.", "Identify two or three high-impact use cases — and just get started: Pinpoint pilots with the greatest potential for scalability to accelerate adoption and integration into everyday workflows.", "\\\"Commit to developing the necessary roles", "skills", "and capabilities: Prioritize education/experimentation", "shift organizational mindset", "and develop new job categories for the future workforce.\\\"", "\\\"Monitor regulatory shifts and be prepared for policy uncertainty: Empower the organization to experiment with agility amidst a patchwork regulatory environment", "shaping the future rather than just reacting to it.\\\""]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-73-living-intelligence"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/01/why-living-intelligence-is-the-next-big-thing"
sourceTitle: "Why “Living Intelligence” Is the Next Big Thing"
---
# 5-Step Positioning for the Era of Living Intelligence

A strategic framework from [[entity-amy-webb|Amy Webb]] for forward-thinking CEOs and business leaders to prepare their organizations for the compounding advancements of [[concept-living-intelligence|Living Intelligence]]. It moves from education → scenario planning → pilot execution → workforce adaptation → regulatory agility, and is the practical antidote to [[claim-ai-myopia|LLM myopia]].

**The 5 steps:**
1. **Demystify Living Intelligence for the entire organization.** Senior leaders must familiarize themselves with how AI, [[concept-advanced-sensors|advanced sensor data]], and bioengineering intersect.
2. **Develop pragmatic scenarios for disruption and new value generation.** Use strategic foresight to map near- and long-term impacts on existing products and processes. (Operationalized by [[action-ask-what-if]].)
3. **Identify two or three high-impact use cases — and just get started.** Pinpoint pilots with the greatest potential for scalability to accelerate adoption and integration into everyday workflows. (Operationalized by [[action-identify-pilots]].)
4. **Commit to developing the necessary roles, skills, and capabilities.** Prioritize education/experimentation, shift organizational mindset, and develop new job categories for the future workforce.
5. **Monitor regulatory shifts and be prepared for policy uncertainty.** Empower the organization to experiment with agility amidst a patchwork regulatory environment — *shaping* the future rather than just reacting to it (see the open question [[question-regulatory-frameworks]]).

Two of the five steps have dedicated [[action-ask-what-if|action items]] in this vault: "What if?" scenario planning (Step 2) and [[action-identify-pilots|high-impact pilot selection]] (Step 3).