ai adoption

Microsoft’s Americas Partner team has quietly — and strategically — opened a new window into the partner ecosystem with the launch of My AI Journey, a short-form podcast series that spotlights real-world AI adoption inside the Microsoft partner community. The debut episodes, released on December...

Firms turn to cash bonuses and unusual rewards to boost employee AI use Executive summary Across industries — from law firms to pharma to fintech and technology consultancies — employers are increasingly using cash bonuses, points, swag and one‑off prizes to accelerate everyday use of generative...

Bosses are turning to bonus pools, spot cash awards and small prize schemes because paying workers to try sanctioned AI tools is a fast, measurable way to break behavioural inertia, curb risky shadow‑AI use and force executive teams to see a return on expensive enterprise AI investments...

Bosses across industries are quietly turning to a familiar management lever—cash—to get wary employees to use generative AI, rolling out bonus pools, spot cash awards, and small prize schemes tied to measurable actions like Copilot prompts as a short‑term tactic to overcome resistance, measure...

Singapore’s business sector has moved from AI curiosity to widespread trial — and in many cases routine use — but CPA Australia’s latest Business Technology Survey reveals a stark mismatch between the pace of adoption and the depth of integration, especially on cybersecurity and governance...

When Windows refuses to finish an upgrade to Windows 11, the result is a tangle of cryptic error codes, stalled progress bars, and a lot of frustrated users — and there are five field‑tested troubleshooting steps that resolve the majority of these failures without a reinstall. Background /...

Seeing is believing: an uncompromising, absolute‑waterfront architectural masterpiece at 2 Gwinganna Avenue, Kiama has just hit the market with a price guide of $8 million and an expressions‑of‑interest campaign closing at 5pm on Monday 24 November, putting a rare front‑row oceanfront...

A new regional snapshot of American curiosity about artificial intelligence shows the Pacific Northwest deepening its attachment to AI tools — and prompts a necessary re‑examination of what search-volume studies actually tell us about adoption, readiness, and risk. Washington state sits high on...

Zenzero and Microsoft convened UK technology leaders this month to sound a clear warning: as organisations rush to adopt AI, the limiting factor — and the greatest risk — is not the model but the data that feeds it, and urgent investment in data resilience, governance and secure platforms must...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

Enterprise technology leaders are wrestling with a widening gap between AI’s boardroom promises and the measurable returns showing up in day‑to‑day operations, according to fresh reporting that lays bare familiar obstacles: data quality, change management, legacy systems, and mismatched...

When Catherine Doyle tells a story that begins with a Commodore 64 and ends with a mandate to “skill up”, she is not delivering nostalgia — she’s mapping a familiar arc of technological adoption onto a very new moment: the arrival of generative AI at scale and the practical choices that follow...

Coretek’s announcement that it has been named a finalist in Microsoft’s 2025 Innovate with Azure AI Platform Partner of the Year program marks a high‑visibility moment for the Michigan‑based cloud, security, and AI engineering firm—and it arrives at a time when Microsoft’s partner awards are...

Artificial intelligence is not an overnight revolution for Australian workplaces — it is proving, by the evidence, to be a slow horse that businesses are saddling carefully and unevenly, with most firms expecting the peak effect on staffing to arrive years from now rather than tomorrow...

Most Australian firms that say they are “using AI” have, for now, stopped at the digital assistant — relying on off‑the‑shelf tools such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot rather than building the data, cloud and governance plumbing needed to embed AI into core business processes. Background /...

Finland’s small-business sector is moving from curiosity to practical use of artificial intelligence, with recent reporting claiming a dramatic year‑on‑year jump in adoption among SMEs — a shift that promises productivity gains but also raises urgent questions about skills, governance, and data...

Generative AI has stopped being a boardroom curiosity and quietly become a day‑to‑day tool for large organizations — nearly half of surveyed business leaders now use Gen AI daily, roughly four out of five use it weekly, and about three in four firms tracking outcomes report a positive return on...

Pasco County Schools plans to unlock supervised, limited student access to Microsoft Copilot for high‑school accounts on December 1, moving from teacher‑only pilots to a phased classroom rollout that ties access to managed district accounts, age gating (13+), and teacher discretion over...

The latest corporate snapshot of generative AI is both reassuring and revealing: most companies report measurable gains, but the market for the tools they use is sharply uneven — with OpenAI’s ChatGPT dominating usage, Microsoft’s Copilot punching above its weight thanks to office integration...

Avanade’s new suite of Microsoft‑powered, pre‑packaged solutions promises faster adoption of AI, simplified Azure migrations, accelerated ERP rollouts and an immediate playbook for cutting cloud spend — a product push aimed squarely at the midmarket that pairs time‑to‑value claims with a free...