{"id":1296,"date":"2026-10-15T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:05:37","slug":"ai-raised-productivity-only-16-of-ceos-can-see-the-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"AI raised productivity. Only 16% of CEOs can see the return."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half of CEOs say AI drove their biggest productivity gains this year. Only 16% can clearly see what it returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ey.com\/en_gl\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/ai-drives-productivity-but-ceos-struggle-to-turn-gains-into-grow\">EY&#8217;s October CEO Outlook<\/a>, a survey of 1,200 large-company CEOs in 21 countries. Almost a quarter say AI gains are often absorbed before they reach the bottom line. EY-Parthenon&#8217;s Andrea Guerzoni put it plainly: &#8220;productivity alone is not a strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faster work is an input. Whether it becomes profit depends on where the freed-up time and capital go next \u2014 and that is a strategy call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Strategist<\/strong><\/em> is built to check that call: an independent strategy for any public company, with management&#8217;s benchmarked against it and every source shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is your AI productivity actually going? <a href=\"https:\/\/strategist.intelligenxe.com\">strategist.intelligenxe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of CEOs say AI drove their biggest productivity gains this year. Only 16% can clearly see what it returns. That&#8217;s from EY&#8217;s October CEO Outlook, a survey of 1,200 large-company CEOs in 21 countries. Almost a quarter say AI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1296\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}