Why it’s safe to bet that most companies will not benefit from AI investments
- Senior business executives need to radically shift their approach to technology. Guess the year when this happened? An organization is reporting an unsuccessful IT system development project, writing off millions of dollars. The reasons cited for this failed investment? Lack of experience with projects of this scale and scope, no single primary owner, an overreliance on external supplier resources, unrealistic business case and timelines, lack of appropriate resource allocation, no “adequate culture - of change management - to ensure that new ways of working and greatly enhanced standardization of procedures could be introduced under a streamlined, more automated system”, significant scope change, organizational leadership lacking “adequate expertise to critically question and assess the issues arising in the project and make fully informed decisions at critical junctures where the project evolved,” were just some of the causes.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Mocker, Martin |
|---|---|
| URL: | https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/11/why-it-s-safe-to-bet-that-most-companies-will-not-benefit-from-ai-investments/ |
| ISSN: | 2162-8564 |
| Published in: | California management review insights |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks |
| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2025 |
| Issue: | 11.11.2025 |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| DDC classes: | 650 Management |
| Open access?: | Ja |
| Licence (German): |  Open Access |
