The Useful Unkown

A podcast about strategy, AI, innovation, and the messy space between knowing and doing. I explore how better questions, sharper thinking, and useful uncertainty can lead to better decisions, products, and work.

The Useful Unkown is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #4

  The handoff nobody designed

  Sep 6, 20269 minS1

  <p>“The pilot was successful” is not the end of the story. Episode 4 looks at the difficult transition from protected experiment to ordinary operations: budgets, permissions, support, monitoring, training, governance, workflow redesign and the context that has to travel with the artifact. Berk Bayri argues for co-ownership before transfer and asks a practical scaling question: what must become true for this system to remain valuable when the pilot team stops protecting it? Featuring a short excerpt from Satya Nadella on why AI adoption at enterprise scale is fundamentally a change-management and process-change problem.</p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p>De...

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  Episode #3

  A pilot is a question, not a small product

  Aug 31, 20269 minS1

  <p>The best pilot is not the smallest product you can build. It is the smallest experiment that still exposes the uncertainty capable of killing the idea.</p><p>Pilots become dangerous when they acquire a second job: prove that the project deserves to scale. Episode 3 reframes the pilot as a decision instrument rather than a miniature product. Berk Bayri looks at polished demos, dirty data, whole-workflow measurement, stop criteria, governance and the politics of sponsorship. The central idea is simple: a successful pilot is one that leaves the organization knowing something important it did not know before — even when th...

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  Episode #2

  Stop looking for AI use cases

  Aug 31, 20269 minS1

  <p>The use-case workshop feels productive because it produces visible output. But a spreadsheet of AI ideas can become a substitute for understanding where the organization is actually paying for friction, uncertainty and bad decisions.</p><p>Most companies do not have an idea shortage. They have a problem-selection problem. In Episode 2, Berk Bayri takes apart the familiar “AI use-case” workshop and replaces it with a more demanding question: where is the organization repeatedly paying for friction, uncertainty or poor decisions? Through sales, content and productivity examples, the episode shows why the same AI tool can create very different outcomes depe...

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  Episode #1

  Solving the wrong problem brilliantly

  Aug 31, 20269 minS1

  <p>The most dangerous transformation failure is not always a bad solution. Sometimes it is a very good solution aimed at a problem that never deserved the effort. This episode is about how leaders can separate technological momentum from actual strategic value.</p><p>AI can make teams faster, more productive and more convincing before anyone has proved that the work matters. In this episode, we look at the organizational reflex behind “we need a website,” “we need an app,” and now “we need AI” — and why the better starting point is evidence, consequence and the quality of the problem itself. </p><p...

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