{"id":211316,"date":"2026-05-09T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:16:00","slug":"harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing AI\u2019s potential for business transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/static\/bt01-harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/\">Harnessing AI\u2019s potential for business transformation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/static\/bt01-harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/static\/bt01-harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-09 03:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thetimes.com\">www.thetimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 20% of businesses are reaping 75% of AI\u2019s economic benefits, as they focus on growth rather than just productivity.<\/li>\n<li>Most large Irish companies have spent \u20ac720 million on AI initiatives that have failed to deliver meaningful outcomes, with an average financial loss per company of \u20ac770,000.<\/li>\n<li>The issue is not a lack of technology access, but poor governance and strategy in how decisions related to AI are made.<\/li>\n<li>For successful AI adoption, organizations need to connect it directly to business strategy, values, risk appetite, and human capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Strong governance, upskilling of staff, and continuous commitment from all levels of the company are critical for effective AI implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Irish companies lag behind their US counterparts in effective AI governance; only 23% believe their efforts are very effective in this area.<\/li>\n<li>Success in AI adoption depends more on the governance and discipline applied than the speed or extent of adoption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harnessing AI\u2019s potential for business transformation https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/static\/bt01-harnessing-ais-potential-for-business-transformation\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-09 03:16:00 Source Domain: www.thetimes.com Only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211316"}],"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=211316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}