Why AI Projects Fail in Companies — BBC News


Explores why many enterprise AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable value, featuring experts discussing adoption pitfalls, misplaced expectations, and how businesses can rethink strategy to realize AI benefits.

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Christian Fraser’s AI Decoded episode does something useful: it stops treating AI like a magic paint and asks for receipts. Guests including Peter Grant, James Kuht and Dr Stephanie Hare walk through the familiar pattern, companies buy licences and pilot projects, but research shows only a small percentage of enterprise AI efforts produce measurable value. That gap matters because investors and boards are still budgeting billions into a technology that too often collides with poor data, mismatched incentives and unchanged workflows.