Cisco AITECH offers a free, 15-hour crash course and AIBIZ providing only high-level business concepts without a formal exam!
Translation: loss of company $$$ + a way to bypass hiring qualified engineers, allowing non-technical managers to fake technical expertise and undermine the value of a rigorous engineering degree.
ONLY Cisco did this. Top companies knew better.
95% of AI pilots fail to deliver measurable profit-and-loss impact is accurate, sourced from the MIT NANDA report.
Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment, only 5% of integrated AI pilots extract measurable value.
Harvard Business Review says AI is flooding workflows with low-quality output that requires more human intervention to validate, creating a net loss in productivity.
Bottom Line - products, sales fail because they treat AI as a plug-in tool.