Wes Spencer says most business leaders claim they don't use AI, but audits show employees already do, widely. Rather than block it, leaders should formalize these grassroots practices into structured enterprise capabilities. Only 3 to 4 organizations out of over 100 are doing this effectively.
Or do you walk into the business and the owner says, we're not using AI at all. And then you go audit and you discover it's being used like crazy by employees. You just found a great way to do something. The question is not how do we squash that? How do we actually wrap our arms around that and bring structure to it and bring capabilities to where the client doesn't say, shut up, nerd, go away. They say, this is actually really valuable. You mean you can help us operationalize this everywhere we go? Yeah, we definitely can. We don't want to stop it. We actually want to enhance it. Now, here's the thing, I would say of over 100 people in the room, 3 or 4 were actually doing that effectively today.
