How to successfully scale AI programs in companies

By McKinsey & Company.

In this piece from the "Rewired takes" series, McKinsey senior partner Brooke Weddle explores how companies are successfully scaling their artificial intelligence programs, focusing on the practical "people lessons" needed to get there.

The email is short and serves mainly as an alert newsletter linking to a longer article on McKinsey's website. The body of the message doesn't go into the content in detail. Instead, it presents the headline and links to related pieces: "From promise to impact: How companies can measure—and realize—the full value of AI" and "Building leaders in the age of AI".

For industry context, McKinsey has been publishing a series of content under the umbrella of its book "Rewired" on digital and AI transformation in large organizations. A recurring theme is that successful AI adoption depends less on the technology itself and more on organizational factors: talent, leadership, change management and how teams work. However, because the body of the email doesn't include the full argument of Weddle's article, the specific lessons she proposes can't be detailed here without risking inventing content that isn't in the original message.