Forget algorithms, adoption is the real agentic AI revolution

"Agentic AI is redrawing the boundaries of value creation in corporate America. Gartner projects that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will incorporate agentic AI, and at least 15% of daily business decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents. The AI race isn't about building the most sophisticated algorithms, it's about whether employees actually adopt these digital collaborators and use them to expose inefficiencies long hidden in plain sight."

"Yet many business leaders are still grappling with how to integrate agentic AI seamlessly into existing operations, and deliver meaningful results. A recent MIT Nanda report found that 95% of AI pilots fail. The core barrier? The "learning gap," a disconnect between what the tools can do, and how organizations leverage them. The same report noted that buying AI solutions from specialized vendors succeeds around 67% of the time, while in-house builds succeed only a third as often."

"Agentic AI isn't just another automation tool, it's a new way of automating. Its true potential lies in reimagining work at its most granular level: breaking down complex processes into smaller, modular components that can be quickly reconfigured for maximum flexibility and impact by LLM-driven systems and reasoning. Consider the music industry's digital transformation. When the world shifted from CDs to digital downloads, record labels no longer had to sell entire albums to move a single hit."

Agentic AI is reshaping corporate value creation by enabling software and autonomous agents to make routine business decisions. Forecasts anticipate widespread incorporation of agentic AI into enterprise applications and significant autonomous decision-making. Adoption matters more than algorithm complexity, with a major obstacle being the learning gap between tool capabilities and organizational use, contributing to high pilot failure rates. Vendor-sourced solutions show higher success rates than many in-house builds. Agentic AI enables atomic-level redesign of work by modularizing processes, allowing rapid reconfiguration, ensuring compliance, guiding next steps, and transforming bureaucratic steps into continuous value creation.

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