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From pilot mania to portfolio discipline: how the best companies are escaping AI purgatory
Fortune· 2026-03-19 11:30
According to the now well publicized MIT-affiliated research and reporting, fewer than 5% of enterprise AI pilots ever deliver measurable business value. The other 95%? They’re still stuck in what we call AI Purgatory: exciting demos, scattered pilots, and vanishing trust.For the past couple of years, corporate leaders have been sprinting into the AI era with a mixture of urgency and anxiety. Boards are calling. Investors are asking. Competitors are announcing. And CIOs, under immense pressure, have respond ...