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The pace of AI development has accelerated dramatically. GPT-4 was released in March 2023, followed by GPT-4o just over a year later. New AI applications launch weekly, and competitive landscapes shift rapidly. Yet most organizations still approach AI adoption with traditional change management timelines designed for slower technological evolution. Consider this, ChatGPT reached 100 million […]

Here’s what we’ve noticed working with businesses trying to implement AI: everyone wants to jump straight to the cool stuff. Machine learning models, predictive analytics, chatbots, agents – you name it. Five Below took a different approach and started with a simple question: “What’s actually broken in our business that AI might fix?” This question led them to something less cool than a bot, but critical – inventory management. Not the flashiest use case, but it was costing them real money every single day.

New Thomson Reuters research out today, The Future of Professionals Report 2025, reveals a stark reality:

“Organizations with visible AI strategies are twice as likely to experience revenue growth compared to those with more informal or ad-hoc adoption approaches.”