Management consultant, educator and author Peter Drucker once declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was "the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century." More than 75 percent of companies are firing up AI to accelerate business development, automate busy work and deliver a better customer experience. AI algorithms are powering massive amounts of calculations and decisions because they can find patterns in data, unseen to the naked eye. They're evolving technology in powerful ways that are enhancing our knowledge work: The most liberating support comes from AI doing the jobs we find monotonous. AI platforms can do repetitive tasks, like learn how to automatically update contact data in your customer relationship manager (CRM) or generate weekly status reports for your leads.