How Organizations Are Actually Getting Value from AI
- jomargacoscos
- Dec 18, 2025
- 3 min read
Real Lessons from Google Workspace + Gemini Customers
Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from theory to real business impact. But beyond the hype, organizations of all sizes are finding practical ways to boost productivity, collaboration, and innovation with AI embedded in the tools they use every day. A recent Google Workspace blog post highlights 128 ways that customers are transforming how they work with Google Workspace and Gemini. (Google Workspace)
In this post, we explore how two well-known organizations — Seattle Children's Hospital and Verizon — are using Google Gemini in real work scenarios and the key lessons teams can take from their experience.
Seattle Children’s Hospital: AI-Powered Clinical Knowledge at the Point of Care
Seattle Children’s Hospital is a nationally ranked pediatric healthcare system in the United States with a long history of evidence-based care. Google Cloud Press Corner
To help clinicians access vital medical knowledge faster, Seattle Children’s partnered with Google Cloud to build Pathway Assistant — an AI-powered clinical support tool built on Google’s Gemini models on the Vertex AI platform. Pathway Assistant synthesizes information from the hospital’s Clinical Standard Work (CSW) pathways — structured, evidence-based treatment protocols for more than 70 diagnoses — and delivers relevant insights to clinicians in seconds, compared with up to 15 minutes manually.
Developed in collaboration with more than 50 healthcare providers, this assistant processes text, diagrams, and images from clinical guidelines and responds to natural-language queries, effectively acting as a trusted, instant reference tool at the point of care. Healthcare IT News
Instead of clinicians having to sift through thousands of pages of clinical documentation, Pathway Assistant quickly retrieves the most relevant evidence-based information needed for patient care. This reduces administrative burden, supports more consistent application of best practices, and helps clinicians spend more time focused on patients rather than paperwork.
Verizon: Scaling Productivity Across a Large Workforce
Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, has also adopted Google Workspace with Gemini to enhance productivity across its global workforce. (Google Workspace)
Verizon uses Gemini to accelerate everyday work in three core ways:
Summarizing long email threads and documents
Extracting key action items automatically
Helping employees generate content more efficiently
By embedding generative AI into familiar collaboration tools, Verizon’s teams save time on routine work — enabling employees to focus on complex problem-solving and strategic tasks instead. (Google Workspace)
The impact scales with organizational size: even modest productivity improvements can translate into significant operational value when distributed across thousands of employees.
What These Examples Reveal
The experiences of Seattle Children's Hospital and Verizon illustrate three key principles for realizing value from AI:
AI Integrated Into Daily Tools Drives Adoption. When AI lives directly in the applications people already use — like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets — teams adopt it more naturally because it augments the work they’re already doing.
Productivity Gains Are Tangible and Measurable. From summarizing documents to speeding up content creation, AI can reduce time spent on busywork, freeing employees for work that requires creativity and judgment.
AI Augments, Not Replaces, Human Work. Both organizations use Gemini not as a replacement for human effort but as an amplifier — helping people work smarter and make better decisions faster.
Final Thought: The Real Value of AI Is in Everyday Work
The question for many teams isn’t whether AI can help — it’s how it should be applied in meaningful, sustainable ways. The stories of Seattle Children's Hospital and Verizon show that when AI is embedded into everyday tools and workflows, organizations can unlock real productivity gains without disrupting how people already work.
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