What do successful deployments of AI have in common? It was awesome working with Elisa Pereira and @AGraylin on this research. We studied 51 companies and summarized the results. Alvin has a nice summary below. Check out digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/… for the full report. Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) New Research💡: “The #Enterprise #AI Playbook — Lessons from 51 Successful Deployments” Excited to share new research from Stanford @DigEconLab, I co-authored with @erikbryn and Elisa Pereira . We spent 5 months interviewing executives across 41 organizations, 9 industries, and 7 countries — focusing exclusively on AI deployments that actually delivered measurable value. Not hype. Not predictions. What’s working right now, and why. A few findings that challenged even our assumptions: The hard part isn’t the AI. 77% of the toughest challenges were invisible costs — change management, data quality, process redesign. Technology was consistently described as the easiest part. Same use case, wildly different timelines. One company deployed AI customer support in weeks. Another took years. Same models. The difference was always the #organization — its #leadership, processes, and willingness to fail. #Agentic AI works — but most firms haven’t tried it yet. Only 20% of our cases were agentic, but they delivered 71% median gains vs. 40% for high-automation. This gap will widen fast. The model is increasingly a #commodity. For 42% of implementations, model choice was fully interchangeable. The durable advantage is in orchestration, data, and process — not the foundation model. With productivity increase, headcount #reduction is common (45%), but not the majority outcome. Redeployment, hiring avoidance, and acceleration strategies accounted for 55% of cases.🚨 The window for experimentation is closing. This is no longer a question of whether AI delivers value. It’s whether organizations can evolve fast enough to capture it — and whether leaders will take responsibility for smoothing the transition for workers and communities along the way. Full report (free): digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/… @StanfordHAI — https://nitter.net/AGraylin/status/2039729157676921185#m

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