Deloitte 2026 State of AI Report - The Untapped Edge

About this episode

The episode discusses Deloitte's 2026 State of AI Report, focusing on enterprise AI adoption and its implications for business ROI.

On this AI to ROI Big Story episode, our hosts Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan dig into Deloitte's 2026 State of AI Report, a 41-page annual study surveying over 3,300 business leaders on the state of enterprise AI adoption. Deloitte calls it "The Untapped Edge," and Ray and Peter unpack exactly why. They walk through the report's seven key inflection points from scaling pilots into production and reimagining business processes, to agentic AI, sovereign AI, and physical AI, with a focus on what the data actually means for companies trying to drive real ROI in 2026. Key topics covered in this episode include: Pilot to Production : Why 54% of respondents expect a major leap in production deployment in the next 3–6 months, and why 37% of companies are still making little or no change to existing processes Productivity & Revenue : How 66% of organizations report efficiency gains today, but only 20% are seeing actual revenue impact from AI - and what it will take to close that gap Business Transformation : Why 84% of companies have yet to redesign jobs around AI, and what that means for long-term competitiveness Agentic AI : What the jump from 26% to 74% expected adoption of agentic…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ray Rike, Peter Buchanan

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• business processes
• agentic AI
• governance
• productivity
• revenue impact

Keywords

• Deloitte
• AI adoption
• business transformation
• agentic AI
• governance
• productivity
• revenue

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Organizations: Deloitte

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