别以为把AI塞进现有流程就完事了。这篇文章用历史实例解释为什么很多公司用了AI却没效果——核心是要重新思考工作方式本身。
Paul David在1990年《The Dynamo and the Computer》中指出，工厂初用电时仅将蒸汽机换为电动机，未改变机器布局与工作流，生产率未提升。直到每台机器配备独立电机，工厂围绕工作流重新布局，才实现生产力飞跃。作者类比：企业若只在旧流程上“嫁接”AI而不同时重构工作本身，同样难获增益。
If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't s…
If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David.
When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out.
The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done.
The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work.
The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it.
AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself.
(link to paper in comments)