Tag: AI adoption
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AI Has Grown Up. Now Stop Measuring It Wrong.
A follow-up to The Golden Hammer Syndrome — six months later, AI is delivering real ROI. The problem is we’re still asking the wrong questions. In January I wrote about using LLMs to check if a number is even. People laughed — and then sent me screenshots of their own codebases doing the same thing.…
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Don’t Teach AI – First Teach People to Ask Questions and Verify Answers
The conversation around AI enablement often focuses on training models, fine-tuning prompts, improving usage metrics and optimizing workflows. But here’s an uncomfortable truth: if your organization struggles with innovation today, AI won’t magically fix that tomorrow. The real barrier to AI adoption isn’t technical—it’s cultural. And it starts with something surprisingly basic: the ability to…
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Measuring AI Adoption: Why Acceptance Rate Works – But Only at the Start
A few months ago, I noticed acceptance rate showing up everywhere in AI adoption metrics. Managers wanted to see it jump from 20% to 50%. Development teams got measured by it. Charts appeared in all-hands presentations. But the more I looked into it, the more something felt off. After talking to industry researchers and teams…
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From Buzzword to Business Value: Using AI Responsibly in Real Projects
How a bedtime story turned into a published book thanks to a thoughtful AI-driven workflow AI is no longer an emerging technology—it’s everywhere. The market is saturated with tools and platforms promising to do everything from writing your code to generating images, music, or complete applications. But here’s a hard truth that many teams (and…
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Beyond the AI Team: Why Every Employee Should Be AI-Enabled
Remember when companies first introduced computers? Imagine if organizations had decided to create a single “Computer Team” and required every department to submit requests for spreadsheet calculations, word processing, or data analysis. The inefficiency would have been staggering. Yet today, many organizations are making the exact same mistake with artificial intelligence. The traditional approach of…