The Most Common Mistakes Companies Make When Bringing AI into Their Processes
AI in companies almost always ends up delivering no real value. It gets bought, installed, and often abandoned. And it’s a real shame, because that company will soon pay dearly for the mistake.
Seven out of ten European companies don’t use it because they say they don’t know how. In Italy almost six out of ten. They looked at it, then stopped, because the skills aren’t there.
Then there are job postings asking for AI skills, sixfold growth in a year. In Italy AI hires grow faster than the total of hires, and by 2030, 59 workers out of 100 will have to relearn their job, and 63% of employers already say the skills gap is their number one problem.
When a company buys AI, it thinks the job is done. Licenses, consultants, proof of concept. Then the project dies. 10% of AI’s value comes from algorithms. 20% from data. 70% comes from people, processes, culture.
And that 70% is the first thing cut from budgets.
In the US, AI training is searched for, bought, integrated. In Europe demand for these training programs is still much lower. We buy the tool, then the company stays the same.
I’ve been running awareness events for companies for years, and I see it. After the event, attention rises for a few weeks. Then everything goes back to how it was. One-off training doesn’t work. You need continuity. The companies that actually fix it are the ones I make videos for every month, continuously. The event helps, but it’s not enough.
Then there’s what companies don’t see. Shadow AI. Employees using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini in secret, no policy, no supervision, with company data inside. A CIO friend at a big company here in New York told me he discovered it watching network traffic. He didn’t know half his team was uploading confidential documents to a free AI.
So buying AI is one thing, and rethinking the organization as AI-driven is something else entirely. We redo the processes, the responsibilities, the metrics, the habits. Slow, uncomfortable, expensive. I know, but whoever doesn’t do it falls behind and risks closing down soon…
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