2026 Executive Insights on AI, Agentic AI, and Enterprise Readiness

AI is now a board-level priority, but gaps in trust, data readiness challenges, and stalled pilots continue to slow progress. This global research study explores how executives are navigating AI adoption and what distinguishes organizations that achieve real business outcomes.

Based on insights from 1,400 global business and IT leaders, this research explores how agentic AI is reshaping expectations, and what’s required to unlock lasting value.

Key findings include:

• Only 28% trust AI to support decision-making, and just 27% trust it to facilitate forecasting or planning
• Nearly half (49%) of leaders cite high-quality, accessible, and well-governed data as the top factor for agentic AI to achieve its full potential
• Business and IT leaders expect responsibility for AI workflows to move away from centralized teams to individual lines of business by 11% over the next three years

In this report, you’ll learn:

• The top barriers preventing AI pilots from scaling into enterprise-wide impact
• Where enterprises are seeing real value from AI today and where expectations still exceed reality
• What organizations need in place before agentic AI can succeed at scale

AI’s next phase will be defined by execution, not experimentation. Download the full report to see how leading organizations are overcoming trust and data challenges and how you can apply these lessons to your own AI strategy.