A Story About Organizations and AI

Are you building for the AI future?

“AI-ready” operations don’t mean the same thing to every company. I recently heard a story from a partner about two large organizations taking entirely different approaches to the future.

Org one wants SaaS-derived, “business-user ready” systems layered on top of AI . The org wants systems ready to execute cleanly, efficiently, and at scale across a well-governed matrix of capabilities. This org wants AI to improve every part of their business without changing their processes, and insists their vendors and dev partners shoulder the full cost of making their systems “enterprise ready.” No one in org one becomes an “AI builder.”

Org two takes the opposite approach. Every individual, from the CEO on down, is given the training, skills, tools, frameworks, and charter to build automation around their specific domain expertise. Everyone in org two becomes an “AI builder.”

Which organization is showing ROI on their AI investment?

Org two, and the contrast is striking.

Organizations that take org two’s approach are showing 5–50% greater ROI and 10–20% lower operating costs from AI. In this winner-take-all landscape, the org twos are winning.

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