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Your team doesn’t know what to use AI for

Your team doesn’t know what to use AI for
Change management is likely not the biggest bottleneck to your AI deployment anymore: Our latest AI Proficiency Report shows that people want to use it, but they can’t figure out what it should be used for.

Is AI the end of Saas?
Right now, I’m sure you can’t imagine life without your CRM or CMS. Edmundo Ortega bets you won’t be able to imagine life with one as AI continues to evolve.

AI could be the end of fast fashion
The retail industry is fraught with waste and sunk costs. Can AI fix that? Diarra Bousso is proof that it can.

What happens when 1M people are really good at using AI?
This week we made our AI coach ProfAI free for consumers to use, to build relevant, foundational AI skills. Our CEO Greg is taking over the newsletter this week to tell you why.

What you actually need to know about how AI works
Right now, AI chatbots seem like magic, and that’s dangerous. It makes it easy to overestimate their abilities. You don’t need to know every technical detail of how AI works – but you do need to know enough to understand its limitations.
Dive into what you really need to know about how AI works.

How we built a generative AI bot
By summer 2023, we were convinced we needed to use AI to improve our student experience. From August to October, we designed, built, and prototyped an AI course tutor called ProfAI. In today's post, we'll walk you through how we did it.
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Why most corporate learning offerings suck (and how to fix it)
What percentage of employees actually use the skills they learn in L&D programs at their jobs?
Twelve percent.
If these numbers sound rough, that’s because they are...

The three skills that actually matter to business growth
Do you ever look at a company like Google or Netflix and think, “I know we could be that successful – if only we had their people on our team”?
The bad news: It’s impossibly expensive to recruit talent from the top tech companies.
The good news: You can develop this type of talent in-house, if you zero in on the skills that actually matter to drive business growth.
To help you, our research team looked at 100 of today’s top-performing organizations and identified the business skills that matter.
These are the skills that should be your top priority in talent development. So let’s get started.