Why Most AI Projects Fail: the stat every leadership team should hear.
From a live TESS Group AI workshop · captions included
“80 to 90% of AI initiatives don't return business value… the AI projects that deliver, people do the legwork first. The stakeholder analysis, the swimlanes. Then once the agents are made, there's far more chance they'll actually be used.”
Everyone got excited about AI in 2024 and 2025, now boards are asking what the return actually was. This clip covers what separates the projects that deliver from the ones that quietly die.
Transcript
…there's a really interesting statistic kicking about just now: something like 80 to 90% of AI initiatives don't return business value. And the AI projects that seem to deliver stuff that's actually good are the ones where people do the legwork first. They do all the really boring, unsexy stuff: the stakeholder analysis, the swim lanes, all that kind of thing. Then, by the time you say, "OK, this idea is a good one, let's bring in some automation tools, let's make some agents", there's more chance that once the agents are made, they'll actually be used.
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