AI For AI's Sake Is Not The Right Approach
Commvault, Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
How to develop a smarter strategy to adopting new tools.
The psychologist Abraham Maslow famously said that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. And everywhere you look these days, companies are wielding AI like a hammer, hoping it can solve all their pressing business problems: 'How can we use AI? How can we sell AI? How can we make money on AI?'
But here's the thing - if you're starting with those questions, you're starting with a broken assumption. The right question isn't 'How do we use/sell/make a fortune with AI?' The right question is 'What problems are we trying to solve?'