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Pearl Meyer’s recent benchmarking of more than 140 public, private, and not-for-profit organizations on discrete AI-related practices revealed the following noteworthy takeaways, among others:

Primary responsibility

• Close to one-third of respondents anticipate that multiple functions will lead the organization’s AI efforts, while a nearly equal percentage have added AI responsibility to an existing role.

Workforce communications

• Nearly one-quarter of respondents are actively communicating with their workforce about how AI may affect the organization’s strategy/goals.
• More than one-third are talking with the workforce about AI generally as a next-wave technology.
• Just 10% are talking about AI's workforce impact.
• Organizations that are actively communicating about it are most commonly doing so via leadership meetings.

Workforce implications

• Nearly half of respondents expect AI to prompt a change in their workforce profile and a need for upskilling or reskilling portions of the workforce.

AI Investments

• Those 21% of organizations making significant AI investments in fiscal 2024 are most commonly doing so in the areas of software licensing and/or training and development (i.e., workforce reskilling/upskilling).
• Another 19% indicated plans to make significant investments in AI in fiscal 2025.

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