Making artificial intelligence transformation a natural success in your organisation
As smart organisations across sectors seek to realise AI’s commercial promise, the L.E.K. team uncovers its challenges, barriers and opportunities.
With our latest survey of European AI-forward leaders revealing that even experienced companies struggle to achieve long-term commercial value, how can your organisation make AI a success?
Mapping the AI adoption landscape
Bystanders
Limited engagement restricted to off-the-shelf solutions
More about bystandersScalers
Making meaningful efforts to engage with AI, but not yet feeling the commercial benefit
Explore the challenges scalers faceProgressives
Taking the lead in implementing AI, enjoying some financial and operational benefits but yet to maximise full potential
Explore the challenges progressives faceSelf-sustainers
Innovators with AI at the core of their operations, enjoying all the benefits and working to keep up with technological developments
More about self-sustainers
L.E.K. worked with a financial services business to help define the capability it needed to kick start AI initiatives and develop the business from a bystander to a scaler.
L.E.K. supported a business services client that had developed from scaler but had not quite resolved some progressive challenges, such as assessing the impact of AI and agentic on its business model.
L.E.K. worked with a technology business that is becoming a self-sustainer and needed support to expand its view on successful initiatives to pursue.
Find out more about L.E.K.’s work in AI
Identifying where you are in your AI journey is just the first step in turning this important technology to your commercial advantage. Our teams are working with organisations across Europe, helping them to shape a future where AI delivers sustainable value for their businesses. From benchmarking to developing bespoke strategies, talk to us about your AI transformation ambitions.
Rob Wild
Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Working with organisations across Europe gives us a powerful insight into the challenges and opportunities this technology presents. Our survey is a good window into the market today, but every organisation is different. Working to map potential and build a user-case is absolutely essential if you don’t want to be left behind in the AI race.
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Ashish Khanna
Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Successful AI adoption isn’t just about technology - it’s about leadership, talent, and execution for any business. Those that get this right will see real impact
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Watch our webinar
In this engaging and practical discussion, Rob Wild (L.E.K. Consulting), Steve DeLisle (SHL), and Nikki Christofi (Penfold) went beyond the headlines to explore why AI success remains so elusive – and what leading organisations are doing differently.
Drawing on exclusive findings from L.E.K.'s latest AI transformation study, they covered:
- The top reasons AI projects fail to scale – and how to address them
- How to build momentum from pilot to performance
- Real-world case studies and cross-industry lessons
- Actionable advice for leaders navigating fast-moving AI landscapes
If you’re leading digital transformation or managing AI projects, this conversation is packed with takeaways you can use today.
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