That Microsoft buyout post took off way more than I expected... and the part I keep coming back to is the 24-month journey, because most of those months have very little to do with the tech. AI adoption is a people problem. People don't like change, and honestly most orgs aren't where they need to be for this yet. I've been doing Microsoft and enterprise IT for 25+ years, and at @DigitalMeld we're in the middle of these rollouts right now on M365, Azure and Power Platform. What actually eats the time: • Figuring out who owns which process, because half the time nobody does, or three people think they do • Writing down how the work really gets done today... not the SOP from 2019 that nobody follows • Agreeing on the single source of truth, and where it should live and who owns it • Getting managers comfortable with their team working differently, and with what that means for their own role • Training that's more than one lunch-and-learn and a recording nobody watches • Lots and lots of conversations. With IT, legal, HR, operations, the people whose jobs are changing... and then the same conversations again a month later Even though you know what you're doing is right, and they're better off following your guidance, you still have to win people to the cause. You have to prove that you will be making people's lives easier. All of that takes planning, time, and leaders willing to sit in the room for those conversations. Cutting a bunch of the people who'd have to do the changing doesn't make it go faster. I'm pretty sure it does the opposite. AI doesn't make AI adoption easier, it just speeds up some of the process. But the process is the process, all the same.