Are your employees ready to succeed in the AI era of business computing?

It can be tempting to see AI as a technological opportunity and challenge. Yet, fundamentally, it’s the people at your organization who will determine success or failure in the next generation of business computing. Take this 2-minute quiz to determine how your organization compares to other firms in readiness for AI and AI PCs.

Please note that in this quiz, we define AI PCs as “A PC embedded with an AI chip and algorithms specifically designed to improve the experience of AI workloads across the computer processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and neural processing unit (NPU).

This question is about the level of understanding of AI within your company. Which of the following statements accurately reflect the current situation at your organization? (Select all that apply.)

Our employees know when to question the output of AI.

Our employees have a basic understanding of how AI works.

Our employees have a basic understanding of how data is used to train AI models.

We have identified our organization's/teams' primary AI use cases and requirements.

1/8

Our employees know when to question the output of AI. Our employees have a basic understanding of how AI works. Our employees have a basic understanding of how data is used to train AI models. We have identified our organization's/teams' primary AI use cases and requirements.

Did You Know?

It’s critical that employees have a baseline understanding of AI as a probabilistic — not deterministic — mode of computing, which can lead to unpredictable outcomes that requires employee scrutiny.

Two-thirds of respondents said their organization has begun laying the groundwork for AI PCs by identifying initial employee use cases and requirements that will define early adoption and implementation.

Base: 157 AI decision-makers at global enterprises

Source: Forrester’s Q3 2024 AI PC Survey

2/8

This question is about the hard skills and training for AI within your company. Which of the following statements accurately reflect the current situation at your organization? (Select all that apply.)

Our employees know what "prompt engineering" is and how to use it.

Our employees know how to ask a generative AI system create text, an image, or music.

We've given our employees formal training formal training for to use AI for work.

We've determined the use cases and back-end infrastructure needed to make maximum advantage of AI PCs.

3/8

Our employee know what "prompt engineering" is and how to use it. Our employees know how to ask a generative AI system create text, an image, or music. We've given our employee formal training for how to use AI for work. We've determined the use cases and back end infrastructure needed to take maximum advantage of AI PCs.

Did You Know?

Employees will require focused training to help them effectively make requests of genAI systems and apply them to their work.

More than half of respondents said their organization has begun taking inventory of current and future apps and workloads to help determine the applicability and demand for AI PCs.

Base: 157 AI decision-makers at global enterprises

Source: Forrester’s Q3 2024 AI PC Survey

4/8

This question is about soft skills and inclinations for AI at your company. Which of the following statements accurately reflect the current situation at your organization? (Select all that apply.)

Our employees feel confident about adapting to AI-based systems for work.

Our employees have the skills to articulate their needs and goals to an AI system.

Our employees feel motivated to learn how to use AI.

Our employees want access to more powerful, personalized computing tools.

5/8

Our employees feel confident about adapting to AI-based systems for work. Our employees have the skills to articulate their needs and goals to an AI is system. Our employees feel motivated to learn how to use AI. Our employees want access to more powerful, personalized computing tools.

Did You Know?

Soft skills and inclinations are defined by employee confidence and motivation. Confidence helps employees adapt to changes in AI capabilities and applications, while motivation is a key determiner if employees will engage with AI systems fully and effectively.

Three-quarters of respondents said their organization’s employees are already driving demand for computing tools that evolve with their needs and preferences. They also want PCs that can handle running AI applications locally, reducing latency/time to productivity.

Base: 157 AI decision-makers at global enterprises

Source: Forrester’s Q3 2024 AI PC Survey

6/8

This question is about AI ethics, risk, and privacy awareness at your company. Which of the following statements accurately reflect the current situation at your organization? (Select all that apply.)

Our employees understand how they can be responsible and ethical when using AI.

Our employees understand the business risks associated with AI.

Our employees understand the privacy and security concerns around AI.

Our employees have received training on their roles using AI with clear and actionable privacy and data security controls.

7/8

Our employees understand how they can be responsible and ethical when using AI. Our employees understand the business risks associated with AI. Our employees understand the privacy and security concerns around AI. Our employees have received training on their roles using AI with clear and actionable privacy and data security controls.

Did You Know?

AI poses numerous thorny problems in ethics, risk management, and privacy. So, employees should have a baseline understanding of each and how these risks apply to their specific role, vertical, and geography.

AI PCs will grant more privacy control to employees over what data stays local and what is sent to the cloud. They will also help with detection and response to security incidents via algorithms that run directly through the NPUs on employees’ machines.

Base: 157 AI decision-makers at global enterprises

Source: Forrester’s Q3 2024 AI PC Survey [E-60815]

8/8

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