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Universities are now teaching Gen AI as a core business skill — not a tech elective. That tells you something important about where this is heading. If you've bought an AI tool your team ignores, yo

Universities are now teaching Gen AI as a core business skill — not a tech elective.

That tells you something important about where this is heading.

If you've bought an AI tool your team ignores, you're not alone. Most business owners weren't trained on how to integrate AI into real workflows — they were just handed a login and a subscription invoice.

Here's the insight worth borrowing from academia: industry partners are telling universities to focus on AI integration, not AI theory. The companies advising these programs aren't asking for students who understand how AI works under the hood. They want people who know how to plug AI into existing processes and get measurable results.

That's the same approach that works for you. You don't need to understand the technology. You need to match one specific business problem to one specific AI capability — and prove it works before scaling anything.

Start there. Pick one repeatable task your team does weekly that eats time but doesn't require judgment calls. That's your first test case. Run it for 30 days. Measure the hours saved. That's your ROI.

One problem. One tool. One win.

What's the biggest reason your last AI tool never got real traction inside your team?

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The Department of Computing Sciences has received ongoing input from industry partners regarding the growing importance of AI integration in higher ...