https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/what-tech-leaders-must-consider-before-ai-initiative > AI and automation for a long time felt like the pot of gold at the end of the technological rainbow: tantalisingly close, but often just out of reach. Though their theoretical potential has been clear for years, data platforms and integration were often not robust enough for the majority of enterprises to actually implement a large scale AI initiative in practice. > Yet with AI and automation technologies finally reaching enterprise maturity – combined with the mind-focusing power of the pandemic – enterprises seem to be changing tack. At any rate, that’s one of the conclusions of the Technology Leaders Agenda 2021, a survey of 611 global technology leaders conducted by Tech Monitor.