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AI Won’t Fix This

4,200 leaders admit the truth: AI won't fix what's already broken.

Reporting by MIT Sloan Management Review 1 min brief
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Why it matters

A Gartner survey reveals that despite decades of tech investment, organizations aren't seeing ROI—and the problem isn't the AI, it's the business fundamentals. This challenges the assumption that AI is a silver bullet for underperforming operations.

The key facts

4 to know

  1. Survey of 4,200+ business and technology leaders (Gartner)

  2. Organizations experiencing meaningful returns despite heavy technology investment

  3. Data generated across all business layers but not translating to business value

  4. Contrarian take: AI deployment without organizational readiness yields poor results

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MIT Sloan Management Reviewsloanreview.mit.edu

Publisher excerpt: We are firmly in the digital age, awash in data generated on every surface and in every layer of every business. Yet, despite decades of investment in technology, time, and effort, many organizations are still not seeing meaningful returns. A global survey of over 4,200 business and technology…
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