AI's productivity promise has a math problem

“We're stopping at individual productivity,” according to Atlassian's AI evangelist Sven Peters, and that is hampering true transformation.

Workers using generative AI report a 33% productivity boost, but only 3% of organizations say they're seeing real business transformation. Someone's math isn't adding up.

Atlassian's AI evangelist Sven Peters has a theory about why.

"We're investing a lot in AI — we're doing a lot, but we're stopping at individual productivity,” said Peters, who spoke to Nextgov/FCW ahead of his March 2 talk at Talent Arena, an international conference dedicated to digital talent held in Barcelona. “We're not taking the next step." 

The numbers come from Atlassian's 2024 “AI Collaboration Report,” but Peters, who works with organizations across all industries, says the pattern holds everywhere he looks. Most organizations treat AI adoption as finished once employees are using it at ...