How AI breakthroughs really happen

Influence determines if AI will be adopted (or not)

Even the strongest ideas rarely fail because they are wrong

Practice #4 Activate Connectors

More often they ideas fail because the ideas never really travel throughout an organisation. AI initiatives are still treated as rollout exercises by many organizations. A central team designs a solution, defines the process, and distributes it across the organization. The expectation? Adoption will naturally follow if the value is clear enough.

However, change does not spread that way in a networked organization.

Ideas move through people, not through structure

More precisely, ideas move through connectors

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