Why Most Organizations Confuse AI Activity with Real Progress

Podcast: Rene Grywnow’s 5-Minute Business Punch · Rene Grywnow, DBA

Opublikowano: 2026-08-25

Week 34 closed with a framework for turning vague AI ambition into strategic choices. Week 35 opens with the trap that framework exists to prevent: mistaking activity for progress. A dashboard full of green metrics and a CFO’s spreadsheet full of red questions can both be true at once — and that gap is where AI programs die. The numbers are stark: manufacturing AI projects fail at ~76%, and 84% of those failures trace to leadership decisions, not technical limits — most often launching without defined success metrics. Projects with quantified metrics succeed 54% of the time; without them, 12% — yet ~73% still launch with no clear...