Businesses of all sizes are experiencing exceptional disruption and change as they grapple with strategies to stabilize and return to growth. In this new environment, human ingenuity, innovation and adaptability will be critically important.<\/p>\n
As a result of COVID-19, businesses\u2019 digital transformation is accelerating more rapidly than ever before. As Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, recently observed during our earnings announcement, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen two years\u2019 worth of digital transformation in two months.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, as people move to distributed working and companies move essential workloads to the cloud, what isn\u2019t instantly apparent is the growing role artificial intelligence (AI) is playing at the heart of digital transformation. For some organizations, its use had already accelerated. Others are looking at bringing forward the benefits\u202fAI can deliver.<\/p>\n
AI is helping us discover, learn, ideate and make decisions. It\u2019s making business operations more efficient, enhancing product and service development, and enabling new customer experiences. In industries like health care, it\u2019s helping improve patient outcomes and save lives.<\/p>\n
Before the pandemic, most of our customers were addressing a similar challenge: How do they ensure their people have the right skills and mindset to thrive in a world where AI is driving real business impact?<\/p>\n To learn more, Microsoft carried out a major international research project* focusing on AI and skills, and discovered the most successful organizations are as focused on developing the skills of their people as they are with deploying new AI-powered technology.<\/p>\n The business environment has changed significantly over the past few months, but the insights we gathered from our research, and the roadmap they provide, still hold true.<\/p>\n![\"Co-workers](\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/leading-businesses-reveal-the-power-of-combining-human-ingenuity-with-ai.jpg\")