@LiorOnAI: Microsoft training 6,000 people to install AI at companies tells you the real problem isn't the AI. It's that businesse…
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Microsoft is building a 6,000-person consulting team to help businesses deploy AI, acknowledging that the main challenge is not the technology but business readiness and adoption.
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Microsoft training 6,000 people to install AI at companies tells you the real problem isn’t the AI.
It’s that businesses don’t know how to use it.
Everyone thought you just buy Copilot licenses and productivity jumps. Didn’t happen. Companies got stuck testing AI in small pilots that never scaled up.
The AI worked fine. The issue was messy company data, old workflows, and no one owning the rollout.
So Microsoft is doing what IBM and SAP did decades ago: building a giant consulting arm to force adoption by hand.
Polymarket (@Polymarket): JUST IN: Microsoft is assembling a 6,000-person AI deployment team to help businesses implement artificial intelligence.
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