AI Strategy for Leaders - lesson 2

Building a team that can actually use it

Capability is distributed, not hired. The bottleneck is translation, not engineering.

What you will take away:

• The scarce role is the translator: someone who understands the business problem and can specify a technical solution.
• Broad shallow literacy across the organisation beats a small isolated centre of excellence.
• Adoption fails for social reasons, chiefly fear about jobs and status, not technical ones.
• Make sanctioned tools faster than unsanctioned ones or you will get shadow usage you cannot govern.

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