TechLeadership

Ninety-five percent of enterprise GenAI pilots fail to reach production — costing an average of $4.2 to $8.4 million per failed initiative. The problem is never the AI: RAND’s analysis of 2,400+ initiatives found 84% of failures are leadership and organizational decisions. This 7-step playbook covers exactly what the 5% who succeed are doing differently, from defining production-grade success criteria to building a continuous evaluation loop.