{"id":27304,"date":"2024-05-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/canadian-smes-are-moving-from-curiosity-to-action-on-ai\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:07:14","slug":"canadian-smes-are-moving-from-curiosity-to-action-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/canadian-smes-are-moving-from-curiosity-to-action-on-ai","title":{"rendered":"Canadian SMEs are moving from curiosity to action on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a press release sent by Microsoft on March 25, 2024:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Microsoft Canada released the results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/2024\/03\/25\/new-study-reveals-canadas-smbs-are-turning-ai-curiosity-into-ai-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new study<\/a> on the challenges and opportunities of AI for Canadian small businesses on March 25, 2024. The results reveal that Canadian SMEs are moving from curiosity to action on AI, with 78% currently looking to adopt AI. Below are other findings from the survey, including a strong focus on training and protecting data privacy as part of the rise of AI.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Investment &amp; Adoption<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">37% of Canadian SMEs invested in AI in 2023<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">78% of SMBs are currently looking to adopt AI<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">65% encourage their employees to use AI<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI has led to an average 31% increase in SME productivity in Canada and 76% of businesses consider the impact of AI on business productivity to be positive.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>AI is gaining efficiency in human resources<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">58% of companies say AI makes the recruitment process easier<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">64% say employees are focusing on more creative and relevant tasks with AI<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring employees with AI expertise and training existing employees are priorities for HR (37% vs. 35%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Laying the right foundation<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than half of the companies surveyed have conducted AI training.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly half of mid-sized companies cited developing current talent as a major challenge for AI adoption.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data privacy and cybersecurity threats are both among the top five AI challenges for SMBs in Canada.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured photo: Microsoft Canada offices in Montreal, taken by Split Screen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a press release sent by Microsoft on March 25, 2024: &#8220;Microsoft Canada released the results of a new study on the challenges and opportunities of AI for Canadian &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,491,623,2010,465],"tags":[2008,1997,2396,2397],"class_list":["post-27304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-en","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-posts","category-sections-en","tag-ai","tag-canada-en","tag-microsoft-canada-en","tag-sme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27305,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions\/27305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}