Earlier this year, a report from MIT’s NANDA research initiative landed with a thud on LinkedIn. The finding getting most of the attention: despite somewhere between $30 and $40 billion in enterprise investment in generative AI, only around 5% of AI pilot projects are reaching production at scale with measurable business impact.
LinkedIn responded predictably. Pages of profound observations followed, most of them – I’ll be diplomatic here – somewhat repetitive and suspiciously well-formatted.
I don’t want to add to that pile. But the underlying finding is worth talking about properly, because it confirms something a lot of practitioners have been sensing for a while.
We’re now more than halfway through the financial year. If your organisation committed to doing something meaningful with AI tools in FY2025-26, November is a reasonable moment to ask honestly how that’s going.
This article was first published on the ENVEE Digital blog.
