I recently sat with the leadership team of one of the highest-performing med-tech companies in a major private equity portfolio.
I asked each executive to physically stand in a spot representing how much of their business they believed would need to be completely redesigned by 2026 to win in the AI era.
Every single one stood between 80% and 100%.
The team was shocked and relieved all at once — because they were glad their peers saw the magnitude of what they saw too and were ready to act.
The CEO said something that stayed with me:
