EconomyET CIO / IMF / Goldman SachsApril 17, 2026
The productivity paradox: why individual gains stall
Individual acceleration exposes the enterprise's decision debt: we produce faster, but we don't decide better.
- ·Users gain ~1h/day (Goldman Sachs).
- ·No macroeconomic impact according to the IMF.
- ·Only a minority of companies reach tangible ROI through process redesign.
What to take away
Read the full readingStop measuring individual time savings. The only success metric for AI is the reduction of your critical process cycle times. If AI doesn't help you go from 8 weeks to 8 hours (as TORQ AI claims for certain marketing workflows), you aren't doing transformation — you are funding entropy.