Adoption rose. Investment rose. The share of companies turning AI into EBIT sat flat at 6% for a second year. McKinsey says redesign your workflows. Its own sidebar says the constraint is your organization's capacity to absorb change. Only one of those is advice you can act on, and it changes how you scope next year's AI plan.

A fundable AI business case makes four things legible to leadership at once: impact, return, real cost and risk. Most initiatives stall because one of the four stays vague. Every AI initiative arrives at the same moment. The exploration is done: the workflow studied, the data evaluated, the vendor landscape reviewed, the fit tested. The initiative seems worth pursuing. Then someone in the room, often you, says: "Great. Let's build the business case." That is where too many te

Some 88% of organizations use AI but only 39% see measurable impact. A four-dimension ROAI framework helps leaders prioritize the initiatives that create value.