Asia’s boardrooms are full of AI ambition. Over the past three years, companies have launched pilots, tested AI assistants, and explored use cases across nearly every function. Business leaders are no longer asking whether AI works, but instead whether it’s materially changing the economics of their organizations.
The next phase of enterprise AI will expose an uncomfortable truth. Companies won’t struggle because they don’t have access to powerful models. Instead, they will struggle because they treat AI as a tool to bolt onto old ways of working. McKinsey’s latest global survey argues that the companies with the strongest bottom-line impact aren’t simply deploying more AI. They are redesigning workflows, governance, and decision-making around it.
