A leader on geopolitical instability and economic uncertainty through 2026 warns that AI will shift from hype to real returns, widening the gap between companies that move fast and those that don't. Change management, not technology, is the real blocker.
I think, you know, kind of the geopolitical instability is going to, you know, intensify and create more economic uncertainty. So I mean, I think that that's just, that's going to continue and we've been resilient or antifragile as we think about that in, in 2025 and I think we'll need more of that in 2026. I think we're going to see AI continue to, you know, move from hype or kind of buzz buzzy to monetization. And Tom, and I think this is going to help with people being able to attach ROIs, because I think it's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna start to show up in the business how AI is enabling and, you know, how you can draw a direct link between a return on that. The speed of tech advancement is going to continue and I think is that acceleration is going to widen the gap. And Ian, this might have been your comment from last year between the early adopters and the laggards, but I think that gap is going to continue to widen as, as we move forward. And I think the, the biggest obstacle is going to remain kind of this change management theme that we talked about earlier from an adoption perspective, particularly as it relates to AI.
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