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The AI Hire Everyone Is Getting Wrong
This week's episode goes deep on one of the most consequential hiring decisions in your organization right now: who should be leading your AI transformation — and why the instinct to hire a senior technology executive is almost certainly wrong.
Key topics covered:
Why 88% of companies using AI are seeing almost no return on the investment
The failure pattern: AI pilots that run for 18 months and never touch a real workflow
BCG's 10-20-70 rule — why 70% of AI value comes from process change, not the algorithm
IBM Watson Health: a $62 million cautionary tale about the wrong kind of leadership…
The skinny
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