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Don’t Just Talk About AI. Measure Business Outputs. Here’s How.

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By Bob Morse and Dario Fanucchi Last year felt like the Year of the AI Pilot. Companies bought LLM subscriptions, managers checked on employee usage, and coffee chats abounded with the “AI wrote my memo” motif. Looking around today, there is widespread disappointment with the impact of these AI pilots. Add to this the recent sell-off in SaaS stocks, and the question is no longer “Are we using AI?”...
Patterns detected: ARC-0024 Ambiguity – The article heavily relies on framing “AI pilots” as a phase of “disappointment,” creating a binary expectation for immediate impact. This frames the situation as a failure, potentially discouraging further experimentation without acknowledging the early stage of AI adoption. It’s a classic “motte-and-bailey” tactic – defining the problem in a way that makes failure seem inevitable. The narrative also employs ARC-0043 Motte-and-Bailey, using Drucker and G...