What is striking about BCG's findings, according to Jessica Apotheker, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, is that the leading companies in AI are mostly the same ones that were leaders eight years ago. "What this year's report shows is that the value gap between these companies and others is widening quite a bit," she says. In other words, BCG's research shows that organisations that have invested disproportionately in technology achieve a higher return from that investment.
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First principles thinking is literally just breaking down complicated problems into their basic, underlying facts and rebuilding solutions afresh from scratch. Instead of analogizing solutions from one's own background (or worse, copying competitors), this process forces you to question assumptions, drill down, and generate true innovation.