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That tension was explored at the London Private Equity Insights Conference by senior investors from AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners), EQT, and Ardian, in a discussion moderated by Jerome Pottier. The recurring theme was focused on behaviour and how decisions are justified within the wider organization. Imran Akram, General Partner at AVP started by explaining that for much of his career, value creation involved 'spending a lot of time going through lists of companies and conferences and checking data and doing all the sort of low-level work.' AI's first impact has been to remove that burden. Feeding large volumes of information into a machine and asking it to surface risks or priorities is now a routine exercise. 'It makes so much more sense to feed it to a machine to go and read it and tell you 'look, actually, here are the five things you should look at',' said Akram. What is more revealing is what happened when these systems started working well. Akram described internal tools that identified relevant opportunities with a hit rate of around 30%, which is unusually high by private equity standards. Yet many professionals ignored them. 'People are not spending their time in the CRM,' he said. 'They just go back and do it their own way.'...
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