In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from being a futuristic concept to a business-essential capability. This article from TechNuez “How to Use AI Tools to Boost Productivity in 2025” articulates how AI can meaningfully elevate productivity and strategy.
For us, the key to unlocking AI’s benefits lies not simply in having AI tools, but in knowing how to write for them, which tool to use, and which strategy to adopt.
Recognising the Opportunity
“Access to AI is not enough. To truly benefit, you need a strategy.” (TechNuez)
We realised that in our context, many of us were already using Ai to good effect in our jobs, but we were not yet treating AI as a strategic capability. The shift from dabbling with AI-powered tools (for example, for drafting content, summarising documents, automating routine tasks) to strategic action happened when we asked:
- Which business challenges or opportunities might AI have a role in advancing?
- Which of our tasks are time sinks (low creativity, high volume) where AI could help?
- Which AI tools match those tasks?
- How do we craft our “prompts” or instructions so that AI delivers value rather than generic output?
- And how do we embed AI into our workflow, so it complements human expertise rather than replaces it?
Writing for AI and Choosing the Right Tools
TechNuez promotes the idea of “mastering the art of prompting”. They provide the “CARE” formula:
- Context — give background (who is the audience, what is the purpose)
- Action — state the verb/what you want the AI to do
- Role — define the AI’s role (e.g., “act as an expert copywriter”)
- Example — show the style or format you want.
We put this into practice at Synapsys by developing internal guidelines for prompt-writing: we now ask our teams to begin with a short description of the objective, the intended reader, the tone, and an example of output. For instance- “You are an internal communications specialist. Draft a 250-word announcement about our new process, aimed at staff across all teams, tone: friendly and clear. Here is an example of previous announcement style: …”
AI is not magic. It becomes super helpful when you know what to write (prompting) and which strategy to adopt (tool choice, workflow redesign, human-AI collaboration). Recognising this has allowed us to shift from experimentation to strategic adoption of AI—freeing our teams from rote work, enabling deeper thinking, better content and faster execution.
The real power of AI lies not in the tool, but in how we use it.