I’m very selective in the pieces I post here. I also limit to pieces published in the past 90 days. There is so much volume around AI and a lot of noise.

I hope you’ll find some solid signal here for your internal conversations.

AI’s Potential for Product Innovation

Published March 22nf, 2025

Ethan Mollick's team in cooperation with P&G (sample: n=776) investigated the innovation potentials for teams/individuals with and without AI as an augment. In summary… AI is a boost for individuals, matching basic human team performance. But teams with AI can generate outsized exceptional results.

see: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate

Accenture’s “Making Reinvention Real with GenAI”

Published March 5th, 2025

Like the BCG report below, Deloitte reviewed 2,000 client projects with genAI and found that only 13% have found significant enterprise value yet.

Key enablers for those who do find value?

1. lead with ‘value’ not the tech
2. reinvent your ways-of-working
3. build a secure digital core
4. double-down on ‘responsible AI’

see: https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/industry/cross-industry/document/Making-Reinvention-Real-With-GenAI-TL.pdf#zoom=40

BCG’s “Closing the AI Impact Gap”

Published January 15th, 2025

This report highlights the large gulf between transformative potential and actual value obtained from AI in large enterprises.

Key blockers:

1. companies aim too low (optimization focus, rather than new products),
2. too many bets spread out too thin,
3. too few employees trained on AI.

see: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/closing-the-ai-impact-gap

Gartner’s 9 Future Trends for Work with AI

Published January 8th, 2025

Some surprising finds in their recent survey of corporate employees, not least is, “87% of employees think that algorithms could give fairer feedback than their managers”

see: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/future-of-work-trends

Deloitte’s 2025 genAI Look Ahead