Ten Reasons Why We Won’t See Productivity Improvements from GenAI

I have co-authored several articles over the last year or two that together suggest organizations are not likely to get business value with genAI if their primary focus is improving individual productivity. But everybody doesn’t read Harvard Business Review, and I have never put all the reasons for this in one place. So here goes—a laundry list of explanations for why you’re probably not going to achieve measurable productivity gains from genAI.

Tom DavenportTom DavenportJuly 13, 2026AI, GenAI, process, Redesign, Measurement

Is AI Data Driven, Algorithm Driven, or Process Driven?

There are those that think that data is the oil of AI and the focus should be clean data, data science and deep understanding of what the data means. There are those that say data is meaningless without context that can be with other data, models/algorithms or processes. Let’s explore the arguments in a concise fashion to discover the advantage of each view.

Jim SinurJim SinurSeptember 15, 2020Jim Sinur, Algorithms, process, data driven, Algorithm Driven, Process DrivenComment

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