A professional warns that ignoring AI, data, and analytics will leave you behind as colleagues gain new skills and extract insights from sales data. Unlike metaverse hype, AI adoption is a real career shift, not a trend.
Whether you like technology or not, I'm going to tell you, all of you, you need to be taking a step in. You really do. You can say you don't like technology, that that's the job of the person down the hall or the other building, and I'll challenge you that if you're not making it part of your day job, you're going to be left behind. If you're not diving into data and analytics, understanding this topic today we're talking about today, you're going to be left behind because I promise you there are others that are picking up those skill sets and ready to take the job of the merchant and allocation person, the analysts that come in and start diving into syndicated data or point-of-sale data and making sense of it in new and different ways using tools that you don't know. But these tools are easier to use than ever. And I'll challenge you leaving today, don't think that this is just another metaverse or blockchain, okay? Because it's not.
