AI ROI Is Broken — Here's How to Fix It | Idea Express

What if your AI program is succeeding at the wrong thing?

Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots never reach production — not because the technology failed, but because organizations weren't built to receive it.

In this episode of Idea Express, K.C. Barr walks through three moves any leader can make this week: auditing which AI initiatives have a real path to production, rewriting AI business cases around revenue and margin rather than hours saved, and naming a clear owner for the pilot-to-production transition.

Drawing on data from the Futurum Group, IBM, and MIT research, K.C. makes the case that the technology gap in enterprise AI is largely a myth — it's the organizational readiness gap that's quietly killing results.

What's your honest read on your organization's AI readiness?

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