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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