{"id":429674,"date":"2026-05-03T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:35:19","slug":"ai-gains-are-related-to-discipline-in-implementation-says-cork-cyber-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429674\/","title":{"rendered":"AI gains are related to discipline in implementation, says Cork cyber expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Almost three quarters (74%) of the economic gains generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being captured by just 20% of companies, a PwC study has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">PwC\u2019s new global AI performance study also has found that Irish companies are lagging behind their global peers where AI implementation and benefits are concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The study interviewed 1,217 senior executives around the world, including in Ireland, primarily at large and publicly listed companies across 25 sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">EFFICIENCY<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The PwC study asked questions about the revenue and efficiency gains senior executives are seeing from AI today, alongside questions about how they deploy the technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The PwC findings also show the leading companies are twice as likely to redesign workflows to incorporate AI, rather than simply adding AI tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cork-based Will O\u2019Brien, a director of cybersecurity with PwC Ireland, said: \u201cMany companies are busy rolling out AI pilots, but only a minority are converting that activity into measurable financial returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cThe leaders stand out because they point AI at growth, not just cost reduction, and back that ambition with the foundations that make AI scalable and reliable.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr O\u2019Brien added: \u201cAI return on investment comes down to execution discipline: clear metrics, fast stop-or-scale decisions and designs built for reuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cValue shows up when AI is embedded in everyday work flows and not just in isolated pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost three quarters (74%) of the economic gains generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being captured by just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-429674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}