The AI readiness gap that's holding businesses back
The AI readiness gap that's holding businesses back
Mark Simpson contributed a thought leadership piece to Digitalisation World on the gap between AI ambition and the organisational readiness required to scale it.
The article covers:
Why over half of organisations already using AI feel ready to scale further, while only about a third of those planning adoption feel ready to implement
The risk of deploying AI without clear governance, connected workflows, and an operating model that supports scale
Why skills and training matter but rarely remove the main barriers: fragmented adoption, weak data foundations, and teams experimenting in isolation
Low employee usage (around 30% in the piece's framing) as a symptom of missing infrastructure and orchestration, not skills alone
What closing the gap requires: change management, reshaped workflows, and processes that embed AI into day-to-day operations rather than bolt it on.
