Viktor Dörfler
I am Professor of AI Strategy at the Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde Business School, UK. I hold a Research Professor position at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and a Visiting Professor appointment at the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. I was appointed member of the British Standard Institution's Artificial Intelligence Committee (BSI ART/001) 2019-2024.
My scholarly research focuses on talent, creativity, intuition, and the grandmaster-apprentice relationship. I conducted in-depth open-ended interviews with 20 top scientists, including 17 Nobel Laureates and two Eckert-Mauchly Award winners, in order to understand the thinking of scientists at the highest level of mastery. As a practitioner, 1999-2004 I spearheaded the development of AI software, a knowledge-based expert system shell, compared various AI solutions, and explored the validity of AI. In my consultancy work, I advise companies on AI implementation to support complex decisions through modelling expert knowledge and on fostering grandmaster-apprentice relationships to improve organizational learning.
To date, I have written 30+ journal papers, three books, 15 book chapters, and 100+ conference papers. Since 2018, I have delivered 20+ talks on Human Mind and AI in New York, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Manama, Lausanne, Budapest, and Birmingham, including two IEEE keynote talks, a TEDx talk, and other prestigious conference appearances.
My scholarly research focuses on talent, creativity, intuition, and the grandmaster-apprentice relationship. I conducted in-depth open-ended interviews with 20 top scientists, including 17 Nobel Laureates and two Eckert-Mauchly Award winners, in order to understand the thinking of scientists at the highest level of mastery. As a practitioner, 1999-2004 I spearheaded the development of AI software, a knowledge-based expert system shell, compared various AI solutions, and explored the validity of AI. In my consultancy work, I advise companies on AI implementation to support complex decisions through modelling expert knowledge and on fostering grandmaster-apprentice relationships to improve organizational learning.
To date, I have written 30+ journal papers, three books, 15 book chapters, and 100+ conference papers. Since 2018, I have delivered 20+ talks on Human Mind and AI in New York, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Manama, Lausanne, Budapest, and Birmingham, including two IEEE keynote talks, a TEDx talk, and other prestigious conference appearances.
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The scene of our workshop is the chaotic-turbulent world of organizations and our executive is a drama hero (as opposed to the action hero) in constant doubt about right and wrong. We started using dramas several years ago to depict decision situations as they over-emphasize the characters, making the conflict more obvious. In the catharsis the executives realized: “this happened to me” or “this could have happened to me” or “this can happen to me tomorrow”. We have found this approach to education of executives and executive coaches fruitful, and now we are taking the ‘dramatic dilemmas’ from the classroom into the organizational context of decision takers. The main problem that we are trying to address is changing how the executive views a particular situation. To achieve this, the executive has to change the conceptual framework and we have found that switching from the old concepts to the new ones requires a ‘trigger concept’. In this PDW we offer the participants a hands-on experience of this process.