Even big tech companies are getting AI wrong on the first try. Rackspace just cut 750 jobs — 15% of their entire workforce — to pivot toward AI services. A billion-dollar company. Restructuring. Agai
Even big tech companies are getting AI wrong on the first try.
Rackspace just cut 750 jobs — 15% of their entire workforce — to pivot toward AI services. A billion-dollar company. Restructuring. Again.
If the giants are still figuring this out, no wonder you feel behind.
You bought the tool. Nobody used it. The consultant collected the check and vanished. That's not a you problem — that's an industry that keeps selling vision instead of outcomes.
Here's what the Rackspace story actually tells you: companies chasing AI as a strategy fail. Companies solving one specific operational problem with AI win. That's the whole lesson. Not the headline, but the truth underneath it.
The difference between wasted spend and real ROI isn't which tool you pick. It's whether you identified a single, painful, repetitive problem first — then found the tool to fix that one thing.
Start there. Pick your most time-consuming manual task this week. Write it down in one sentence. That sentence is your AI brief — and it costs nothing to write.
What's one business task you'd eliminate tomorrow if you could? That's exactly where your first AI win is hiding.
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Major workforce reduction: Rackspace is cutting about 750 jobs worldwide, or 15% of its staff, to focus on enterprise AI services and ...