Claimed results from client engagements: answers to complex queries in 10-12 seconds with approximately 95% accuracy; manual effort cut by approximately 80-85% for simple reports and 75-80% for medium-complexity reports.
50%effort saving in a proof of concept migrating six Tableau reports to Power BI with reader and writer agents
Principle 1, strategic oversight: boards should balance short-term productivity pressure against sizeable early investment in data, infrastructure and change management whose returns are uncertain, and consider effects on business model, partnerships and M&A.
5governance principles, broken into 22 sub-principles
81% of surveyed financial firms adopt AI at some level; 40% report advanced adoption versus 20% of regulators.
52%industry respondents in active adoption of agentic AI; 23% at Scaling or Transforming
Maturity split: 54% are in early stages (research 11%, experimentation 22%, strategic planning 21%), 39% are scaling or driving adoption, 8% have established ROI.
95% vs 8%organizations with an AI strategy vs organizations reporting established AI ROI
86% of organizations plan to increase AI investment in 2026, but only 21% report redesigning end-to-end processes with AI at the core (Pulse of Change survey: 3,650 executives, 20 industries, 20 countries).
21%executives reporting end-to-end process redesign with AI at the core (Pulse of Change survey, 3,650 executives)
Generative AI reached 53% population adoption within three years, faster than the PC or the internet; organizational adoption reached 88%.
88%organizational adoption of AI in 2025
Turn 1 scenario: a fictional US firm releases an AGI-level model; GDP rises while white-collar unemployment and protests grow.
Executives surprised by political risk events "most or all of the time" rose from 1% in 2021 to 35% in 2025 (EY-Parthenon Geostrategy in Practice).
1% to 35%executives surprised by political risk events 'most or all of the time', 2021 vs 2025 (EY-Parthenon)
67% of executives expect physical AI to transform their industry (US 73%, Europe 64%, APAC 67%); 64% expect it to become a critical driver of competitiveness.
79% / 27%organizations engaging with physical AI / deploying or scaling it
AI is used in health administration in 100% of OECD countries interviewed; national scale-up for medical imaging applications is 10%.
100% vs 10%OECD countries using AI in health administration vs national-level scale-up of medical imaging AI
Global engagement fell to 20% in 2025 from 23% in 2022; each point equals about 21 million employees.
20%global employee engagement in 2025, down from a 2022 peak of 23%
Repository growth: 28 qualifying papers in January 2023, over 800 by October 2025; the count doubled between January and September 2025.
818 / 20papers in the AI Hub research repository (October 2025) vs papers with strong causal evidence
Participants by location: UK 23, EU 11, USA 9, Canada 6, Hong Kong 4, Australia 4, Japan 3, other Asia 2.
62 / 60institutional investors in six roundtables / interviews, from 12 countries