1、AI Change Management:The Inverted Transformation Imperative for the C-SuiteHow to lead AI change when you cant keep up with it yourself For the first time in business history,we are seeing something completely new:regular employees are using new AI technology faster than the companies they work for.

2、This is not just another technology that needs a quick fix.Instead,it completely changes how companies adopt new technology.In the past,new technology moved from top leaders down to workers.Now,it moves from everyday workers up to leadership.The center of change has shifted from the boardroom to emp

3、loyee chat channels and personal The“Shadow AI”phenomenon The evidence of this“Shadow AI”phenomenon is both overwhelming and vaguely terrifying.A staggering 73.8 percent of workplace ChatGPT accounts belong not to the corporate domain but to personal email addresses circulating beneath official chan

4、nels.Between March 2023 and March 2024,the corporate data being fed into these unsanctioned AI tools exploded by 485 percent,a figure that would trigger a heart event in any self-respecting CISO.AI technology is ahead of AI culture Meanwhile,the C-suite finds itself in the unfamiliar position of pla

5、ying catch-up,like parents discovering their teenagers have been throwing parties while they were away at management retreats.Leadership is dutifully developing strategies,allocating budgets and commissioning consultants to develop upskilling roadmaps,yet Ciscos AI Readiness Index reveals an organiz

6、ational culture unprepared for the revolution already occurring.“Individualshuman beings both in and outside of businessare adopting AI quicker than can be embraced at the enterprise level.As leaders,weve realized weve got a vulnerability here.Toby Boudreaux Global Vice President of Data Engineering