Gina Smith PhD’s Post

AI is no longer an innovation. It has become a permanent fixture of an organization's technological landscape. Join Gartner's webinar on 12/19 to identify the elements of an AI literacy initiative.

As we look towards 2024, what advancements lie ahead in the world of work? 🤔 The Employers Institute of Work forecasts the potential for AI to empower businesses, with increased focus on purposeful work.

As we look towards 2024, what advancements lie ahead in the world of work? 🤔 The Employers Institute of Work forecasts the potential for AI to empower businesses, with increased focus on purposeful work.

As we look towards 2024, what advancements lie ahead in the world of work? 🤔 The Employers Institute of Work forecasts the potential for AI to empower businesses, with increased focus on purposeful work.

In today's digital landscape, companies have access to vast amounts of data. As an executive, using this data for strategic decisions, operations, and product development is crucial. But is your organization a laggard, a progressive, or advanced in your data and AI maturity? We've observed significant disparities in maturity levels across businesses, and these differences have a direct impact on the ability to compete effectively in this new world. In our latest article, we identify the characteristics of each and explore what organizations need to do to move to an advanced capability. https://lnkd.in/gytd9PPh

Journey towards integrating AI into organizational frameworks is not without its hurdles - starting from Data to Talent Gap at both end of spectrum! Lack of skilled workforce probably going to be biggest bottleneck for organisations over next few years in this journey, since it would need lot of pivoting and cultural change! Keeping up with the rapidly evolving AI technology space, which advances on a weekly basis, is a formidable challenge for everyone. It's not feasible to treat this as a mere weekly or monthly catch-up activity. #aichallenges #aijourney #aistrategy #artificialintelligence Source: IDC Microsoft Research Report.

Cisco recently published a report on their "AI readiness index" 🔎 The report is based on a survey of 8,161 senior business leaders at organizations with 500 or more employees with responsibility for AI integration and deployment within their organizations. Here are some of the key findings: 1. The largest immediate issue is data centralization, with 81% of respondents admitting that their data exists in silos across their organizations. 2. Only three out of 10 respondents currently have comprehensive AI policies and protocols, and just four out of 10 have systematic processes for AI bias and fairness corrections. 3. An overwhelming 90% of organizations are investing in training to address some of the AI skills gaps in their workforce. Talent readiness is a big issue as can be seen in the visual below. 4. The lowest percentage of Pacesetters is seen in the Culture pillar, suggesting that business leaders are still wrestling with how to best integrate AI across their organizations. Curious to read the full report? https://lnkd.in/eb9CEjnE Are you facing some of these issues as well? Feel free to reach out to have a chat! #ai #readiness #cisco

This video summarizes the #keynote at Gartner #ITSymposium 💡, highlighting the evolving dynamics of #AI 🤖 and its far-reaching implications for the #future of #business 👔 #strategy 📈 and #operations. It outlines the dual aspects of AI—everyday and game-changing 🚀—and introduces the AI Opportunity Radar 🧭, a #strategic #tool 🔍 to help #leaders navigate this complex landscape 🌐.

Where do you stand on integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your organization? Are your employees ready? Learn how to harness the power of Human Intelligence (HI) with AI in your workplace. Business owners, managers, and HR professionals will hear how to embrace AI and foster a culture of innovation and workforce skills building empowering organizations and employees to adapt and thrive in an AI world. Register Here: https://ow.ly/FvKE50RGQwp

How do you use AI to help with reskilling and upskilling? This is a key theme of this year's L&D Global Sentiment Survey, and I'll be discussing it with Andy Andrews of Lexonis this Thursday at 10.00 am Eastern. We'll look at moving from abstract ideas to the real practicalities of supporting reskilling/upskilling with AI. I hope you can join us!