Dynamic Decisions Podcast

What happens when the real problem isn't your data — it's your decision-making architecture?

Gregory Bartolomei, Director of Decision Intelligence at IHG Hotels and Resorts, brings a rare combination of enterprise scale, analytical rigor, and hard-won wisdom about where AI actually helps and where it quietly makes things worse. Having spent nearly eight years building decision intelligence at JP Morgan Chase, Gregory now applies those lessons inside one of the world's largest hospitality companies.

In this conversation, Teasha and Gregory dig into:

• Why "more horsepower" AI often obscures the right answer instead of surfacing it

• The McKinsey situation-complication-resolution framework and how it helps leaders cut complexity without losing the truth

• How IHG builds DI systems that serve thousands of franchise owners globally without steamrolling the context of a single property manager in Bangkok or Birmingham

• The case for LLMs as thinking partners and Python as the test — and why those two tools belong in different hands at different moments

• Decision Compute: a simulated boardroom tool designed to give any CEO access to the kind of structured, multi-perspective decision support that currently only exists inside billion-dollar consulting engagements

• Why AI adoption stalls even when the tool is excellent — and what the change management piece actually looks like at scale

Gregory closes with a challenge to leaders drowning in dashboards: identify the three most important things you need to deliver, and filter every signal through that lens. That's not a data strategy. That's focus.

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