Perficient Leads with Strategy at the 3M Open
AI may dominate the executive agenda—but for many organizations, it’s failing to deliver real transformation.
While 84% of CIOs list AI as a top business priority, just 11% have achieved full-scale adoption, and only 12% of employees feel properly trained. The result? AI initiatives stall, internal skepticism rises, and the promise of innovation gets buried under fatigue.
That’s why this July, Perficient is partnering with Salesforce to bring 60 senior executives together at the 3M Open. Over four days of candid conversation and collaborative strategy, we’ll help leaders move past pilot paralysis and define what a meaningful, AI-first transformation strategy really looks like.
Rethinking the Narrative: How AI-First Transformation Strategies Create Value
The most successful organizations aren’t using AI just to automate—they’re using it to fundamentally reimagine how they deliver value.
Employees using autonomous agents are 72% more likely to feel “very productive,” freeing time for high-value, strategic work. In contrast, those without agents spend nearly 40% more time on administrative tasks. The companies seeing these gains aren’t just adding tools—they’re rethinking culture, workflows, and priorities around an AI-first strategy that puts people and data at the center.
What sets these organizations apart?
- Radical transparency: Leaders are proactively communicating how AI supports—not replaces—their people. That clarity accelerates adoption.
- Internal innovation: Before going to market with AI-powered offerings, they optimize internally first. Think sales enablement, client operations, and process automation.
- CIO-led momentum: Sitting at the crossroads of technology, data, and strategy, the CIO plays a pivotal role in leading AI-first enterprise-wide transformation.
Turning Potential into Performance: Operationalizing an AI-First Transformation Strategy
But even the most visionary AI strategy can collapse without the right digital foundation. Too many businesses start with automation before addressing the fundamentals—poor data quality, disconnected systems, and organizational resistance—which quickly derail momentum.
That’s where our Salesforce PrecisionIQ Assessment comes in. It’s more than a platform audit—it’s a purpose-built evaluation to accelerate your AI-first transformation strategy.
Our two-part solution helps organizations:
- Identify and eliminate technical debt
- Surface data governance gaps
- Align people, process, and technology around a unified AI transformation roadmap
Whether you’re still exploring AI pilots or scaling enterprise-wide adoption, we help organizations build a strategy that moves from experimentation to measurable impact. It’s this outcome-driven approach that earned Perficient recognition as a Gold Globee winner for Best Artificial Intelligence Service Provider—because we don’t just consult; we deliver.
Let’s Connect at the 3M Open: Where AI-First Transformation Strategies Take Shape
The next wave of enterprise innovation demands more than just technology—it demands alignment and clarity. If you’re attending the 3M Open, let’s get you connected to our onsite leadership team. Together with Salesforce, we can help you navigate the realities of enterprise AI and design an AI-first transformation strategy that turns fatigue into results.
I can appreciate this. All too often we are bogged down in analog thinking. AI has to and will take over processes we previously thought challenging to optimize. The real question is can we do it faster and cheaper.