Imad Touil opens with a show of hands. Who has built a skill? Most of the room. Who shares them with their team? Fewer. Who governs and maintains them across the organization? A handful. That collapsing sequence is the talk, because he argues skills are where an organization's actual know how ends up living.
AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack
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