I have led enough transformations to recognize a pattern. Every few years the buzzword changes. It was ERP. Then it was Lean. Then it was digital. Today it is AI. The packaging is new but the script is the same.
The boardroom loves the headlines. Leaders talk about revolution. Consultants roll out shiny decks. On the ground, nothing changes. People still resist. Culture still blocks adoption. Execution still falters in the middle layers.
The difference this time is that the technology is actually powerful. AI can strip weeks out of processes and expose insights we never had before. But none of that matters if the company runs the same way it always has.
That is the part no one likes to admit. Transformation fails not because the tech is weak, but because the system using it is broken.
Has anyone here actually seen AI break that cycle? Or is it just another costume change in the same corporate
[link] [comments]