Impulse Speech: The Rise of Outside-In Decision Intelligence

How to Make Intelligent Decisions In The Age of Agentic AI

Is your intelligence leading to action or the archive?

The information era is dead; long live the decision era.
We are witnessing technological Darwinism in action: generative AI is eroding moats and making speed and momentum the new differentiators. Old decision habits now guarantee missed opportunities — and in some cases, obsolescence. Yet most companies are fighting tomorrow’s battles with yesterday’s weapons. That’s organizational delusion.

 

This session introduces Outside‑In Decision Intelligence — a practical, action‑first approach for turning external market and competitive intelligence into faster, prioritized decisions, with humans firmly in the driver’s seat. You will learn how to build augmented decision systems composed of AI agents, actionable intelligence, and CI professionals transformed into informed decision engineers who set strategy, ethics, and judgment. Think decision flywheels, not dusty reports.


Let’s challenge business decision‑making culture and close the Great Divide between intelligence and decisions. Join us to stop admiring intelligence and start leveraging it in this brave new world.

Key Takeaways

  • Learn more about the great divide between intelligence and decisions and how it is hurting most companies.
  • Discover the Outside‑In Decision Intelligence model — a pragmatic blueprint for building informed decision flywheels that converts real‑time external intelligence into prioritized actions, using AI agents for orchestration and humans as informed decision engineers.
  • Explore how you can help your organizations to shift their decision-making culture from the old pre-AI era ways to the decision intelligence mindset.

Speaker

 

Fouad Benyoub

Founder and CEO, Otin.ai
Founder and Chief Competitive Strategist, Shiva Strategies

Canada


Fouad Benyoub is a recognized leader in market and competitive intelligence, as well as an accomplished author, speaker, advisor, and strategic thinker. With 20 years of experience in business and product strategy, competitive intelligence, and marketing, Fouad has successfully built and led over 10 competitive and market intelligence programs for private and publicly traded companies across seven global industries, including energy, reinsurance, telecommunications, and SaaS. He holds a Master's degree in Competitive Intelligence and International Business Development from the University of Strasbourg (France) and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics (Operational Research).

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