Adopting AI fast isn’t the same as being AI-ready: IBM Nisha Gopinath
Executive Take
Buying AI tools is easy. Redesigning jobs and training managers to use them is the hard part most companies skip, and that's where the value gets lost.
Executive Summary
Nisha Gopinath, VP and Head HR at IBM India and South Asia, argues that fast AI adoption does not equal AI readiness. She says work redesign, continuous learning, manager capability and new ways of working are equally critical to converting AI adoption into actual business value.
Why It Matters
HR leaders keep measuring AI success by tool rollout speed instead of whether work actually changed. This matters most for HR and technology leaders deciding where to spend AI budgets next.
Bizquad Perspective
Most companies will hit a wall in twelve months when adoption metrics look great but productivity numbers don't move, because nobody redesigned the actual jobs.