Enterprise hits and misses - Davos gets deconstructed, and PwC has good (and bad) news about AI projects

Lead story - Davos 2026 - where do we (and AI) go from here?

The Davos event is an annual contradiction. An 'elite' group gather to discuss the future... of everyone? And yet, the enterprise relevance pokes through.

Markets and tech cannot avoid each other, and AI impacts culture, business, information. Stuart issued a flurry of Davos 2026 reviews, each fleshing out a different angle. Start with Davos 2026 - size does matter as enterprise scaling of AI takes center stage on Day One. Pilots? yes. Enterprise scale? Not so much. What's holding us back?

Honestly, I see mostly excuses valuable lessons. It's the curse/blessing of the AI we have now: if you don't have your (data) foundations in the right place, you aren't going to get there. If lessons can be encouraging, these quality. Stuart notes one: the shift to 'outcomes thinking'. He quotes Accenture CEO Julia ...