Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how businesses operate. Gartner® predicts at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI by 2028. And 92% of companies are boosting their AI spending, according to McKinsey.

But here’s the problem: most companies are yet to realize a positive impact of AI on their profit and loss (P&L). According to analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence,

“The share of companies abandoning most of their AI initiatives jumped to 42%, up from 17% last year [2024]” in the first half of 2025.

According to Gartner,

“Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027.”

The gap between spending and results is clear. To make AI work, companies need to stop running scattered experiments and start building enterprise-wide programs. As McKinsey puts it:

“The organizations that are building a genuine and lasting competitive advantage from ...