Industrial Research Unit · Straits Institute for Applied AI
Applied AI in Strategy & Leadership
11 entries on the record in strategy & leadership — 7 pieces of evidence of adoption, 3 pieces of evidence of impact, 1 deployment. Each one is traced to a named source and dated. Maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit; the record was last updated 14 Sep 2026.
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Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipBermuda24 Jun 2026
62% of Bermuda directors say AI investment is paying off
PwC Bermuda — PwC's Caribbean Corporate Governance Survey 2026 - Bermuda Edition, June 2026, has 62 per cent of Bermuda directors seeing gains from AI and generative AI spending, yet only 29 per cent credit management with delivering AI and GenAI strategy. AI governance ties cybersecurity as top risk, each primary for 24 per cent; 41 per cent back the board's capacity to oversee AI and GenAI plans, 37 per cent confirm a formal route for AI-related opportunities and risks, 37 per cent report thin board education. Just 7 per cent rate AI expertise top when recruiting, and PwC Bermuda partner Marisa Savage said boardrooms now demand different skills, leaving board AI oversight short.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGuernsey12 Mar 2026
Channel Islands chief executives report thin returns from AI
PwC Channel Islands — PwC's Channel Islands CEO Survey 2026, 'Catalysing competitiveness in the age of AI', polled 45 chief executives across Guernsey and Jersey. Channel Islands AI adoption looks shallow: 58% doubt the firm can shift quickly enough to match technology, and merely 8% see revenue rise and costs fall together. On AI maturity, just 15% have sufficiently many of the seven foundations for success; 80% deem innovation indispensable, yet only 9% claim solid innovation footings.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGlobal2026
88% of surveyed organisations now use AI, AI Index finds
88% of surveyed organisations used AI in 2025, up from 78% in 2024, the 2026 AI Index reports. 70% used generative AI in at least one business function.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGlobal2026
56% of CEOs saw no revenue or cost gains from AI investments
56% of chief executives saw no revenue rise or cost fall from AI investments over the past 12 months. PwC's 29th Global CEO Survey (January 2026) polled 4,454 CEOs in 95 countries.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGlobal2026
Only 28% of firms report CEO-level oversight of AI governance
About 28% of respondents at AI-using organisations report CEO-level oversight of AI governance, and roughly 17% board-level, McKinsey's State of AI: Global Survey 2026 (published August 2026) finds. Top-level oversight has barely moved in a year.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGlobal2026
76% of organisations now have a Chief AI Officer
76% of organisations now have a Chief AI Officer, up from 26% a year earlier. The fastest-growing C-suite role shows AI governance climbing the org chart.
74% of AI's economic value goes to just 20% of companies
Just 20% of companies, the 'AI leaders', capture 74% of AI's economic value through growth and reinvention, not productivity alone. It is a stark value gap.
Evidence of adoptionStrategy & LeadershipGlobal2026
Only 34% of organisations use AI to deeply transform work
Only 34% of organisations use AI to transform their work deeply, with 'talent readiness' the weakest capability at 20%, down 2 points in a year. The bottleneck is depth of transformation rather than adoption.
Only 37% of firms report enterprise-level profit impact from AI
Although roughly 88-90% of organisations report using AI, only about 37% say it has produced enterprise-level EBIT impact, roughly unchanged on a year earlier, McKinsey's State of AI: Global Survey 2026 finds. That is the adoption-to-value gap in one number.
MIT study finds 95% of enterprise AI pilots show no profit impact
About 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots showed no measurable P&L impact and only 5% captured significant value, an MIT study reported. Caution: it is self-labelled 'preliminary findings', not peer-reviewed, its methodology has been publicly questioned, and its authors at MIT Media Lab's Project NANDA build AI-agent infrastructure, a structural conflict of interest.
Moderna staff build over 750 custom GPTs in two months
Moderna rolled out OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise company-wide and let staff build AI assistants; in about two months they created over 750 custom GPTs across legal, research, manufacturing and commercial functions. Legal reached 100 per cent adoption, the highest of any department, the company says.
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