Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep.
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Balfour Beatty is taking its AI ambitions stateside with an employee hackathon aimed at translating prototypes into construction-ready AI tools — but the most consequential news in this story is the scale of the firm's Microsoft partnership and its strategic investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot...
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