Chris Blackburn

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Eye On A.I. · Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

You have a lot of approval process and all of that.

So we use techniques like value stream mapping.

Value stream mapping is very simple.

It's just visualization of the end-to-end flow of value and all the handoffs and coordination and all of that that go into the system.

And it really raises awareness to the folks of what this looks like and where their challenges are at in the org.

You know, kind of maybe taking a sidestep, though, is I think that the AI one that's going on right now, like, I actually love it.

I don't think that many organizations are seeing true bottom line or system improvement with AI.

But I feel like everybody sees that it has to happen here soon.

And at least that's giving them time to experiment, right?

and try things out and learn from it.

So I think AI is more than just like, if it's just a catalyst today, a catalyst to change management for efficiency sake, to look at the end to end system, I think that's super successful.

But so anyways, going all the way back to our numbers, if our average customer is operating at 5% to 6% efficiency, which means they're doing three or three and a half hours of value added work in a given week, you could leverage that with AI or you could look at expanding that.

And I think that's where our big focus is at is let's expand that opportunity so people are doing more value.

I mean, remember the value is the fun work too.

If you're a builder of a system,

You don't want to be sweeping the floors or servicing the drill bits or welders and stuff like that.

You want to be building the product.

So increasing the time that they get to spend on value added tasks and then add the second dimension of leverage through technology and AI to it is what our primary focus is across the board.

This starts leading into so many different other areas, though, that's really complex is, you know, looking at the end to end system, you start wanting to cut parts of the system out to improve the flow.

And today that means cutting out a lot of existing practices and bureaucracy and handoffs that were there for a reason where you kind of wanted a human in the loop to validate, to confirm, to align, to coordinate and all of that.

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