Corporate AI vs. Visionary People

BCG says that 83% of firms prioritize innovation, but only 3% feel able to execute.

I ask: what’s the bigger flaw: overestimating corporate AI or underinvesting in people?

Probably both.

I see a trend where AI is seen as the cure-all.

Instead of investing in visionary and creative leaders plus the engineers to execute, companies invest in AI gimmicks whose ROI is (for now) mostly in efficiency – not real innovation.

Everyone – at this point – basically pretends it will lead to proprietary innovation.

At the same time, the innovation companies end up running after, are the innovations that AI tells them to – and because AI is commoditizing logic, it simultaneously commoditizes innovation.

Congratulations: You end up in a red ocean instead of blue ocean.

Therefore, innovation becomes competition, and is not innovation anymore.

The biggest mistake companies can make today is investing all in AI and not investing in the human genius of their workforce: visionary leadership, their collective intuitive intelligence, Human-AI-Symbiosis