Your Teams Should Drive AI Adoption Not Senior Leadership

Harvard Business Review: “Artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, but it is breaking out in a big way right now. As companies start to appreciate the almost boundless potential of Generative AI, they have begun to fast-track existing AI projects and are starting new ones in all areas of the business, including supply chain, HR, sales, marketing. Leaders are grappling with managing it all. It’s time for businesses to centralize control under a seasoned executive, right? Wrong. Whenever a new technology comes along, large companies think you need to appoint a designated senior leader — a “czar,” in popular parlance — and it will get taken care of. In recent years, we’ve seen how this applies to the metaverse, blockchain, and now AI. At many enterprises, the decision to appoint a senior point person to oversee the adoption of a new technology is practically an automatic at this point. It’s also often a big mistake…”