Scaling AI Pays Off, No Matter the Investment

We assessed the AI maturity of more than 2,700 companies in three areas: AI use cases, AI capabilities, and the company's digital foundation. The 2,700 business leaders we surveyed on AI maturity were located in 21 countries in Asia, Europe, and North America and covered nine industries: consumer goods, energy, financial services, health care, industrial goods, insurance, the public sector, technology, and telecommunications. We aggregated the raw scores in 26 categories, equally weighted them, and ranked each company on a scale from 0 to 100 to determine its overall performance on our AI² Acceleration Index. We consider the top 25% of companies to be advanced in AI; the bottom 25% are those that are behind in AI and have not yet succeeded in their transformation to "AI @ scale." Even though we found that scaling use cases is key to generating and sustaining value from AI, most companies do not yet leverage the full potential of this approach, scoring only 35 to 45 out of 100 possible points.