Case Method Lessons for Boards: Sharpening Judgement in the AI Era
Originally published on Digoshen Blog, August 28, 2025
In boardrooms facing AI-driven upheaval, the case method isn’t just academic—it’s a practice of deep discernment. For directors, it’s not about fast agreement, but about honing the courage to question, challenge, and cultivate wiser judgments.
Key reflections from the full article include:
- Why the case method matters for boards — It provokes judgment under uncertainty, thrives on thoughtful dissent, and sharpens decision-making through respectful friction.
- What dynamics make it powerful today — Encouraging respectful disagreement, forcing clarity through vocal reasoning, amplifying peer learning via multiple perspectives, and embedding lessons through self-discovery.
- How boards can apply case practices — By structuring discussions to make decisions before debate, requiring counterexamples, steel-manning the opposition, rotating member viewpoints, having leaders speak last, and ending with a reflection on what shifted thinking.
- Why this matters even more in the AI era — Research shows digitally savvy boards outperform others. They blend boldness with ethical judgment and recognize that oversight of AI is now a fiduciary responsibility.
- How boards must balance innovation and supervision — They must cultivate bravery to ask tough questions and test assumptions, while anchoring visionary leadership with disciplined oversight.
The invitation is clear: to embrace the case method not as a classroom relic, but as a vital tool—for cultivating sharper judgment, fostering robust governance, and steering with responsibility in the age of AI.
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About Liselotte Engstam, Digoshen and Novisali
Liselotte Engstam is an explorer of perspectives, an adventurer of ideas, a pathfinder of meaning, and a guide of timeless transitions. She bridges the worlds of board leadership and art, helping organizations and individuals navigate disruption while nurturing creativity and reflection.
As founder of Digoshen, she works with boards and leaders to expand future insights and reduce digital and sustainability blindspots. Through research, networks, and executive programs, Digoshen supports responsible value creation in the digital and sustainable age, contributing thought leadership via books, articles, events, Digoshen Exploring Leaders podcast, and blogs.
She also serves as Chair of the Boards Impact Forum in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance. The Forum convenes board members, thought leaders, and experts in dialogues, webinars, and collaborative events, accelerating action on climate, AI, and sustainability.
Through her artistic practice as Novisali, Liselotte explores creativity and meaning. Her watercolors, digitally reimagined, invite reflection and renewal, offering perspectives that connect head, heart, and hand, and complementing her work with leaders and boards.
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