You’re late!
If you haven’t started testing Artificial Intelligence in your department's most operational routines, you’re late! The innovation train is leaving the station, and standing still now means risking becoming a mere spectator of the transformation currently underway. This isn’t exaggeration or hype; it’s what the data shows.
According to the Future of Professionals Report 2024, published by Thomson Reuters, 77% of professionals believe AI will have a transformational impact on their activities over the next five years. We are no longer talking about a technology that "might be useful in the future"—we are talking about something already being applied every single day in Legal, HR, Compliance, Sales, and other teams around the world.
Another study by IBM (Global AI Adoption Index 2023) reveals that 35% of companies worldwide have already adopted some form of AI in their operations, and 42% are actively exploring the technology. In other words, more than half of the market has already begun this journey. This includes small, medium, and giant enterprises across the financial, industrial, retail, and professional services sectors.
What many still haven't realized is that the question isn't "will we be replaced by machines?" but rather: will we be replaced by people who know how to use technology better than we do? Data from the World Economic Forum helps illustrate this: they estimate that by 2025, technology will create 97 million new jobs, many of them requiring digital skills and AI collaboration.
Simply put, the machine isn't going to take your place. But someone with the same job title, who knows how to leverage technology for their team and their results, will.
If you haven’t tested it yet, haven't run a POC (Proof of Concept), or haven't included AI in any routine—no matter how simple or experimental—then yes, you are late. The good news is there’s still time to turn the game around. But you need to start. Because waiting for the "perfectly clear" scenario is, in practice, just falling further behind.