AI and Productivity: Yanik Guillemette Foresees a "Silent Crisis" for Canadian SMEs
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AI and Productivity: Yanik Guillemette Foresees a "Silent Crisis" for Canadian SMEs
The AI tools aren't failing your business. The adoption strategy is.
You're not alone if you've paid for a platform nobody logs into. That $200/month ghost subscription isn't a sign you picked wrong
The AI tools aren't failing your business. The adoption strategy is.
You're not alone if you've paid for a platform nobody logs into. That $200/month ghost subscription isn't a sign you picked wrong — it's a sign nobody helped you implement it for how your business actually runs.
A new warning from Canadian tech investors is worth paying attention to. SMEs aren't losing to AI. They're losing to the gap between buying AI and actually using it. The businesses pulling ahead aren't the ones with the biggest budgets. They're the ones who started small and got one thing working.
That's the whole game right now. One workflow. One repetitive task your team hates. One measurable result inside 30 days.
You don't need to rebuild anything. You need to identify the single most time-consuming manual task on your team's plate this week — and test one tool against it. That's it. That's the entry point that separates businesses who get ROI from AI from the ones who just have another unused login.
What's the one task in your business you'd love to stop doing manually — but haven't found an AI solution that actually sticks?
According to technology entrepreneur and strategic investor Yanik Guillemette , the delayed adoption of AI among small and medium-sized enterprises ( ...
