Thoughts about Some Surprising AI-Era Technology Readiness Findings

With the assistance of Arthur D. Little and the Cutter Consortium, we surveyed business executives about their business-technology plans, readiness and priorities.a The results surprised us--a lot. We learned that nearly 80% of the companies still believe in some form of the central control of technology, and that only 5% of the companies are decentralized, where the lines of business are free to pursue technology initiatives on their own. Just over half of companies do not track emerging technologies or maintain technology watch lists. Only 17% of companies have a well-funded, well-defined innovation strategy, and 34% have no innovation strategy at all.