I was Prompted to write this for you!
Today’s post is by Ronald D. Southard, CEO at SafeSourcing Inc
We have all heard about the impact that AI will have on jobs in the future. For some of us that time is now, for others maybe down the road a bit.
I have personally been using AI tools since they first became available. The speed at which it helps with all types of work is amazing. The tools are becoming better, smarter, faster, and more accurate every day. However, a caveat is that if you are trying to solve a business problem and have no experience in the industry or business area you are prompting to, you may create more issues than you solve for your company and your customers, because you do not know the right questions to ask to begin with. Experience does count even in the AI space.
In the procurement space where I work, there are many people blogging and writing about how to correctly use eRFX tools. Questions abound about the proper use of an RFI’s, RFP’s and RFQ’s. You may even have a desk full of finished examples of these processes. The question is, have you written one, supported one, evaluated one. If the answer is yes, have you done so across multiple industries? Have you delivered the final results through a written executive summary that recommends award scenarios and next steps required to proceed to a contract.
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then maybe you can write a Prompt that will deliver clean results in a usable format that may save your business time and save your customer money and potentially process improvement. If the answer is no, how can you write a good Prompt to begin with and how will you know if the answers being provided by your AI tool of choice are correct.
Once you develop a great Prompt, what do you do with it? That’s a question we’ll answer tomorrow in Part II.
SafeSourcing is a Procurement as a Service (PaaS) provider of a number of e-Procurement solutions and associated white glove services that are part of our PaaS offered SafeSourceIt™ eSourcing suite. We have the tools, we have the knowledge, we have the experience, and we have the AI prompts that deliver results.
To learn more, please contact a SafeSourcing customer services associate.
