Why 80% of AI Pilots Fail: Ashish Chandra on Moving From Experiments to Enterprise Impact
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Global AI leader Ashish Chandra explains why most enterprise AI pilots fail and how to scale them successfully.
Chandra argues that organizations treat AI as a technology project rather than a business transformation, which is why roughly 80% of pilots never reach production.
Success requires embedding AI as a core business capability through unified intelligence layers, strong data governance and quality data foundations.
He recommends measuring AI value across four dimensions: financial metrics, operational efficiency, intelligence quality and strategic impact.
Looking ahead, he expects autonomous reasoning systems, self-governing capabilities and agentic workforces, with humans concentrating on judgment, governance and creativity.