Julie Averill

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · The AI Headlines You Should Be Most Suspicious Of · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

If you can carve out a piece of the business and you get alignment, it's like I said, the technology is easy, right?

And you can make it go live.

But the larger transformations that require people across multiple functions that really changes how people work, those take a long time.

And mostly because organizations are slow to move

There's a lot of talk around how AI is actually changing the org charts, because instead of being modeled on a department hierarchy, instead you have to think about how decisions are made.

It's fundamentally different.

And those are the things that take time in an organization.

Well, I think it's very natural for boards to want to know

what their companies are doing in terms of AI.

And I heard one CEO get asked that, what's your AI strategy and how can you forecast the impact that AI is going to have on your business?

And his reply was 20% over five years, like no data behind that, no anything, but just, yeah, we should be able to get 20% over five years.

I mean, it's a reasonable guess.

But what it does when that happens is that now the focus is on efficiencies.

And the reality is that many companies have had gains in, you know, tremendous gains with AI for their business, but it's not yet coming through in terms of efficiency.

Something like 3% of companies are actually seeing the efficiencies play out.

Now, will efficiencies come?

probably, but that's not what to go after to start with.

So when a board comes and says, show me your AI strategy, what happens is the CIO goes back to his or her leadership team and says, we need an AI strategy, appoints one person, right?

And that person goes, they collect all of the ideas that are out there and it becomes, again, performative because then that goes to the board, they see a list of all these things, they're happy because all this AI activity is happening.

But we don't really know if any of those are really moving the neo.

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