De Bellefonds agrees, and that catching up isn\u2019t a competition for the \u201chighest number of use cases.\u201d That\u2019s in part because leaders are seeing the value of the technology and reinvesting their returns. Those included in the study plan to spend twice as much on IT this year and direct more of that IT budget specifically to AI.<\/p>\n
The impact of agentic AI is one of the fastest accelerators. What once seemed like a buzzword is now proving its mettle, as the report estimates agentic AI\u2014systems that reason, learn, and act autonomously across workflows\u2014account for 17 percent of AI value in 2025 and could reach 29 percent by 2028<\/a>. To achieve that value, the research shows that deeply integrating agentic AI into the area that\u2019s been identified as most important to the company\u2014like the marketing or supply chain areas that Luther referenced\u2014is best practice.<\/p>\n Like any transformation that has a significant ROI, it takes time. And hard work.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s this misconception that AI is this magic wand and integrating it will be easy\u2014that you just have to plug this tool and voila! it all works out,\u201d says de Bellefonds. \u201cThat misconception, frankly, is often pushed by some AI providers. The fact is, it takes a bit of hard work to really transform how you work and how you operate. People underestimate that. Maybe because they want to believe that it’s easy. The report shows there is real value, but it only works if you do the real transformative work that goes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n That means AI failure is not often about the model being used. The report found that most roadblocks are human and organizational, like aligning strategies, training, getting people to actually use the tools, handling unstructured data, and setting clear goals. Companies that skip the groundwork\u2014operating model, skills, guardrails\u2014struggle to scale<\/a>, no matter how clear their prompts or clean their coding.<\/p>\n \u201cWe always had this rule of thumb we called 10, 20, 70,\u201d Luther says. The rule suggests that success with AI relies 10 percent on the algorithms, 20 percent on the tech, and 70 percent on the people. With this longitudinal study, \u201cit actually proves out\u2026 that it is really all about the people.\u201d Done well, she adds, AI \u201ctakes the toil out of the day-to-day\u201d and \u201ccreates more joy in the job\u201d because humans spend more time on judgment and creativity.<\/p>\n The performance case for AI, it turns out, is also a human case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Bellefonds agrees, and that catching up isn\u2019t a competition for the \u201chighest number of use cases.\u201d That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,38659,38658,86,9012,56,54,55,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-309865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-inverted","12":"tag-onecolumnnarrow","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}