ai adoption

Cloud HQ’s US$4.8 billion commitment to a six‑building data center campus in Querétaro and Nvidia’s headline-grabbing capital moves — a US$5 billion stake in Intel and an up-to‑US$100 billion partnership with OpenAI — are not isolated headlines; they are connected beats in a single global story...

Law firms that once met generative AI with suspicion are now using a repeatable playbook — pilot, govern, verify, scale — to turn skeptics into internal AI champions while protecting client confidentiality and professional duty. Background / Overview The last 18–24 months forced a reckoning...

The business world is now visibly split into two camps on artificial intelligence: cautious skeptics who see adoption as overhyped and risky, and pragmatic realists who treat AI as a powerful but manageable productivity lever—and that split is already reshaping strategy, culture, and investment...

South Africans report high familiarity with artificial intelligence and near‑ubiquitous everyday use, but they remain cautious about delegating high‑stakes decisions to machines — and the gap between convenience and trust could shape business strategy, regulation and workplace practice across...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic...

CBIZ today announced the commercial launch of Vertical Vector AI™, a new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence platform aimed at accelerating AI adoption in middle-market businesses by combining secure integration with existing Microsoft ecosystems, workflow-oriented features, and a...

Bauducco’s decision to adopt Microsoft Copilot — implemented through a strategic engagement with Cloud Target — marks a pragmatic, metrics‑driven push to modernize business processes across HR, finance and IT while explicitly measuring the financial impact of AI adoption with a purpose‑built...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

Every leader who’s rushed to “buy AI” and roll it out by fiat has learned the same lesson: technology without people is a cost, not an advantage. Background: why the conversation matters now Generative AI is no longer an experimental sidebar for labs and startups — it’s being embedded in...

Artificial intelligence has moved from boardroom buzzword to an operational imperative, yet many organisations remain stalled at the starting line — frozen by cost fears, data readiness questions and governance uncertainty — a gap that demands a practical, measurable path from enthusiasm to...

Gartner’s message at its recent IT Symposium keynote was blunt: AI is no longer a niche experiment — it is seeding itself into every corner of technology management, and CIOs must treat it as an organizational operating reality rather than a vendor-driven fad. This framing — repeated by Gartner...

The S&P 500’s recent ascent has become inseparable from the runaway success of a handful of AI-focused technology giants, and that concentration is reshaping risk, return expectations, and portfolio construction for investors of all stripes. The analysis published by AInvest correctly highlights...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a boardroom novelty; it is a strategic frontier most companies feel they must cross — yet too many remain stranded at the shore, gripped by a mix of enthusiasm and uncertainty. In a recent opinion piece, Chris Badenhorst, Head of Azure Core, Data and AI...

Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...

Artificial intelligence has become the corporate obsession of 2025 — simultaneously promising transformational gains and producing widespread paralysis at the point of first step, argues Chris Badenhorst of Braintree as organisations struggle to move from enthusiasm to execution. Overview...

Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...

Pittsburgh companies are being asked to treat change not as a periodic challenge but as an ongoing business condition—an expectation now baked into strategy, talent, finance and security decisions—and the practical playbook local leaders are using to stay afloat increasingly mixes rapid...

TD SYNNEX announced on August 27, 2025, that it has signed a new multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud and AI adoption across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean—an expanding, partner‑focused pact that promises joint...