AI adoption
Building the Enterprise AI Stack
Only 1 in 3 respondents report AI having a positive impact on their organisation's operating profit.
Only 1 in 3 respondents report AI having a positive impact on their organisation’s operating profit.
The McKinsey AI survey
That’s a pretty damning number. It comes from McKinsey & Company’s State of AI 2026 survey. It suggests people are enjoying personal productivity gainsRobert Solow said in 1987: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” This changed once work was redesigned around the machines, but those gains are not translating into organisation-wide financial gains for the vast majority94% according to McKinsey.
Productivity versus value
That’s the gap. Helping people become more productive with AI is one challenge; helping organisations see financial impact from AI is a very different one.
What got us here won’t get us there.
How do you transfer individual productivity gains into wider organisational gains?
Enterprise AI Webinar
I discuss this and more with James Giroux in Building the Enterprise AI Stack, a webinar with WordPress VIP and Americaneagle.com.
We explored where AI creates value, how workflows should evolve, and how we can better measure outcomes.