AI Center of Excellence launches instructional innovation grant programs - Penn State
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AI Center of Excellence launches instructional innovation grant programs - Penn State
Penn State just launched an AI grant program for educators. And buried in that announcement is the most honest thing I've seen in AI strategy all year.
They required faculty to identify a specific pr
Penn State just launched an AI grant program for educators. And buried in that announcement is the most honest thing I've seen in AI strategy all year.
They required faculty to identify a specific problem before picking a tool.
Not the other way around.
If you bought an AI tool that nobody on your team actually uses, this is probably why it failed. You started with the technology, not the problem. The vendor showed you a demo. It looked impressive. You bought it. Then reality hit.
The smartest institutions in the world are now teaching this lesson formally: define the bottleneck first, then find the tool that solves exactly that.
You don't need an AI strategy. You need one problem worth solving this month. Something that costs you time or money repeatedly. A task your team does manually that follows predictable steps. That's your starting point.
Write down the three most repetitive tasks in your business right now. Pick the one that eats the most hours. That single problem is your AI roadmap for the next 30 days.
No system overhaul. No new hires. No coding.
Just one problem, clearly defined.
What's the AI tool you invested in that never got used — and what do you think actually went wrong?
