For the past several years, organizations have been asking an important question: How do we adopt AI? But I think the more consequential question is becoming: What kind of organization does AI require us to become? I'm certainly not alone in thinking this way. There is growing recognition that many of the barriers to realizing value from AI aren't purely technical. They are also organizational including governance, workflows, data, decision rights, workforce capabilities, lea

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