The AI conversation is dominated by a preoccupation with frontier capabilities. Yet a more consequential challenge is the gap between what AI can do and what it is actually doing in the world. This adoption gap is particularly acute in the Global South, where AI is deployed amid resource constraints, limited state capacity, and fragile institutions. This report sets out to map these adoption challenges, in order to understand how AI can be better embedded into existing workfl

Husch Blackwell’s newly created Transformation Office functions as both an innovation operating unit and a firmwide deployment mechanism for AI and process change. The office’s remit includes practice innovation, strategic delivery, and data science and AI, giving Joanna Penn a central role in the firm’s technology and transformation agenda.