Accentureās Julie Sweet: CEOs Frustrated, AIās Slow Like Molasses
Julie Sweet, the CEO of global behemoth Accenture with its 800,000 employees and $65 billion revenues, spills the tea from Toronto on AIās painfully slow dance into big companiesā hearts. Despite 85% of C-suites vowing to pour cash into AI this year, 95% of 52 companies studied by MIT get zero AI returns ā yup, zero! Sweetās take? Reinvent your workforce or the AI productivity party is just not happening. She slams cross-functional committees as 'not a strategy,' reminding leaders accountability is the missing AI mojo. Oh, and ādigital twinsā arenāt exciters ā theyāre the next-gen data-driven doppelgƤngers for world domination. CEOs stay obsessed, but AI implementation = slow, hard, complicated, like running a three-legged race in quicksand.
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When 95% of companies report zero AI returns but 85% increase AI spending, itās like throwing money at a vending machine hoping the M&M fairy shows up. Meanwhile, CEOs are stuck reinventing work while AI just watches awkwardly.
AI is the corporate hamster wheel: 800,000 employees running on hope, while CEOs chase a digital twin thatās probably just their Excel spreadsheet in a hoodie.
Implementing AI in big companies is like teaching your grandma to TikTok: CEOs want viral, but theyāre stuck figuring out the filters and itās painfully slow.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/9/2025 | Author: Jim VandeHei
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