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Sep 22, 2026

Neil C. HughesHOST
0:24
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Neil C. HughesHOST
0:31
Why are employees using AI far faster than companies are turning their activity into business value? Well, today in this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I'm going to be welcoming back David Martin, Senior Partner and Global Leader of People and Organisation at BCG.
Neil C. HughesHOST
0:53
We've spoken several times in the past, but today we're going to be looking at the findings from the firm's fourth annual AI and Workforce Report, where they surveyed 11,749 employees across 14 countries.
Neil C. HughesHOST
1:09
and found regular frontline AI use is rising sharply.
David MartinGUEST
2:00
And thanks for having me.
David MartinGUEST
2:01
My name is David Martin.
David MartinGUEST
2:02
I'm a senior partner at BCG, and I lead our people and organization business unit globally.
David MartinGUEST
2:07
So that is all of BCG's work on topics like organizational design, talent, culture, and change management.
KeiaHOST
32:01
Right now, Khadijah consults and coaches a wide range of entrepreneurs personally and as an entrepreneur in residence for Black Ambition.
KeiaHOST
32:08
She serves as the chief operating officer for the Majira Project, which is a business accelerator backed by the Boston Consulting Group for underrepresented founders.
KeiaHOST
32:16
And she currently leads an incubator program for STEM startups in Atlanta.
KeiaHOST
32:19
with the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, in addition to serving as a general partner at Fictive Ventures, the first venture fund focused on early-stage Black-led startups as well as Black investors.
Xavier GutierrezGUEST
4:08
in which that would be the thesis, right? Number one, we would convene folks around really tentpole events, the NFL Super Bowl, the Miami F1, the US Open, and then also really create data for the first time.
Xavier GutierrezGUEST
4:24
So we partner with folks like Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey and Nielsen, to start creating reports that actually captured in hard data the impact and the importance of this global cohort to the sports industry.
Xavier GutierrezGUEST
4:38
And then also just to create community, to bring Latinos and non-Latino decision makers, folks like yourselves, into the conversation and into the discussion and say, this isn't just a nice thing to do or a social imperative.
Xavier GutierrezGUEST
4:51
This is a business imperative.
Evan CampbellGUEST
3:59
Well, you know, I've been involved in strategy consulting for quite a few years now.
Evan CampbellGUEST
4:03
And people often ask, you know, if I'm at a cocktail party and we're chatting and, oh, you do strategy consulting, you know, do you compete with, you know, McKinsey and BCG and all of these guys? And it's like, no, I don't really compete with them.
Evan CampbellGUEST
4:18
I kind of follow them around.
Evan CampbellGUEST
4:20
And I don't want to say I clean up after them because they do good work, but they're really focused on strategy deployment.
Giulia PolettiGUEST
2:27
They used to be called CLESS and S back then, and I'm not sure how they're called now.
Giulia PolettiGUEST
2:32
After my master of science, I stayed in Milan and I joined BCG, uh, strategy consulting, where I worked for three years until 2018.
Giulia PolettiGUEST
2:42
After then, I went to London for an MBA, and I then joined a private equity fund in 2019 and full time in 2020, and I've then been working in private equity ever since.
Giulia PolettiGUEST
2:54
As said before, I have, I have a couple of...
Jason BargerHOST
3:09
Joe Davis is an award-winning author and speaker on a mission to bring generosity to leadership.
Jason BargerHOST
3:15
He spent 1987 to 2025 at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, where he served as a managing director and senior partner.
Jason BargerHOST
3:24
In 2011, Joe was recognized as one of Consulting Magazine's top 25 consultants for excellence in the public sector.
Jason BargerHOST
3:33
In his book, The Generous Leader, which we'll talk about here in just a moment, Joe offers a seven-part guide to heartfelt and collaborative actions that transform the reader into a generous leader.
Joe DavisGUEST
7:16
And he says, you know, when you retire, he really said, if you're a 35-year-old or 40-year-old, and I know people aren't going to think like I'm about to say, but think about your legacy.
Joe DavisGUEST
7:25
Like, think about, sorry to say this, what are they going to say in your eulogy? Not what are they going to say when you're retired.
Joe DavisGUEST
7:31
Because when you retire, oh, he grew BCG, North American.
Joe DavisGUEST
7:34
So what? You know, they won't say that when you retire.
Luke CarignanHOST
26:01
All right.
Luke CarignanHOST
26:01
This is from Boston Consulting Group, Lisa Miller, titled the 56 manual hospital workflows ready for agentic AI.
Luke CarignanHOST
26:11
So this conversation about AI in healthcare has been dominated by clinical use cases lately.
Luke CarignanHOST
26:17
We're talking about AI reading scans, AI diagnosing, AI replacing physicians.
Vanessa ChanGUEST
8:29
No, absolutely.
Vanessa ChanGUEST
8:30
So, for example, B Capital, which is BCG's VC arm, uses it as part of their due diligence process.
Vanessa ChanGUEST
8:38
And they've been super supportive and have shown us, you know, how they're using it.
Vanessa ChanGUEST
8:42
And, you know, when we created ARLs, I mean, this is based on my dozens of years.
Jen DulskiGUEST
6:54
The thing that most companies have missed is that It's not enough to just throw tools at people.
Jen DulskiGUEST
7:01
And this summer, a ton of research came out from BCG and McKinsey and Gartner and everyone who says it actually isn't only about the algorithms, the models and the tools we give people.
Jen DulskiGUEST
7:11
It's about the people.
Jen DulskiGUEST
7:13
And the BCG data says 70% of whether your AI transformation is successful or not lands on whether the people are able to adapt to these tools and still work with each other.
Jen DulskiGUEST
7:23
And that's what we see is that the marketplace and the workplace is just so difficult right now because every company's drive to efficiency, intense pressure around adapting to AI.
Jen DulskiGUEST
7:34
So you have all this intense pressure, this workplace tornado we talk about.
speaker_0HOST
38:34
And there was a recent speech the guy gave at Harvard University, basically encouraging people not to go into bullshit jobs.
speaker_0HOST
38:42
So for, you know, the usual, you know, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, whatever.
speaker_0HOST
38:47
It's like the Bermuda Triangle of Harvard talent that he identified, where it's the consulting firms, investment management, and, you know, large law firms.
speaker_0HOST
38:58
So I hear a similar call from you.

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