{"id":201589,"date":"2026-04-02T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/ai-insights-executives-identify-key-obstacles\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:50:19","slug":"ai-insights-executives-identify-key-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/ai-insights-executives-identify-key-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Insights: Executives Identify Key Obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/study_posts\/the-enterprise-ai-readiness-gap-what-company-data-reveals-about-the-real-barrier-to-scale\/\">AI Insights: Executives Identify Key Obstacles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/study_posts\/the-enterprise-ai-readiness-gap-what-company-data-reveals-about-the-real-barrier-to-scale\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/study_posts\/the-enterprise-ai-readiness-gap-what-company-data-reveals-about-the-real-barrier-to-scale\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 10:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Internal Readiness is the Bottleneck<\/strong>: Most executives (70%) at large enterprises blame internal organizational barriers more than technology issues for limiting AI performance. Only 11% cite technological limitations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Multiple Interconnected Issues<\/strong>: Executives identified multiple barriers that average four to five interconnected issues each, including data quality, budget constraints, and governance processes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Confidence-Reality Gap<\/strong>: While nearly all executives are confident that their data governance supports AI, 85% report that their data is fragmented and 63% cite data quality as a barrier.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Integration<\/strong>: Next-gen AI is deeply embedded in data and technology functions but remains in early stages in areas like HR, finance, and corporate strategy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Closing the Readiness Gap<\/strong>: To achieve real AI readiness, enterprises must address data integration, stress-test governance, tackle multiple barriers at once, and shift focus from AI functionality to organizational readiness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Insights: Executives Identify Key Obstacles https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/study_posts\/the-enterprise-ai-readiness-gap-what-company-data-reveals-about-the-real-barrier-to-scale\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-02 10:02:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com Internal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Enterprise-AI-Readiness-Gap-What-Company-Data-Reveals-About-the-Real-Barrier-to-Scale-hero.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201591,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201589\/revisions\/201591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}