India, Sept. 7 -- Enterprises poured more than $250 billion into AI globally in 2025. Yet only one in four organizations says AI has a truly transformative impact. This gap isn't about the amount of money being spent; it's about how the money is being spent. Here's the real challenge: companies keep bolting AI onto existing operating models built for manual coordination and step-by-step decisions. Keep doing that, and AI speeds up individual tasks, while the business underneath doesn't show significant improvement.

However, AI has increasingly started changing the operating model from the inside. Today, work moves differently. Decisions land in different places. The way people and AI split up work looks nothing like it did a few years ag...