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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), Innovation and change.