The Best AI Is the Kind You Don’t Notice (How IHG Is Scaling AI That Actually Works)

The Best AI Is the Kind You Don’t Notice (How IHG Is Scaling AI That Actually Works)

Author: World Wide Technology: Artificial Intelligence Experts March 25, 2026 Duration: 34:43
Most enterprise AI tries to be impressive. In a hotel, it just needs to work. No one checks in hoping to experience great AI. They want things to feel smooth, fast, intuitive — like everything is just handled. That’s the standard. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, AI is being applied with that mindset. Not as a headline, but as a way to make employees more effective and operations run cleaner behind the scenes. In this episode, IHG Chief Product and Technology Officer Jolie Fleming shares what it ...

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