How AI breakthroughs really happen

AI breakthroughs occur at the intersections where distinct

worlds collide AI value emerges where it moves throughout an organization

Practice #6 Work across boundaries

The real value of AI rarely emerges where it is first introduced into a specific business domain. Most organizations still treat AI as something that belongs inside functions:

Each of these domains optimizes locally, builds expertise internally, and improves performance within its own boundaries. The most transformative value almost never appears inside a domain’s boundaries

Finance uses it for forecasting HR uses it for workforce analytics, Operations uses it for efficiency

It appears between boundaries

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