The State of Enterprise AI & Workflow Automation
RoboSoft Works compiles and analyzes publicly published research from McKinsey, Forrester, and IBM on enterprise AI and workflow automation adoption, scaling, and ROI, with links to every original source.
- Adoption: 88% of organizations report regular AI use in at least one business function, up from 78% a year earlier (McKinsey, Nov 2025).
- Scaling: Only ~7% of organizations report fully scaled AI deployment; most remain in pilot or scaling phases (McKinsey, Nov 2025).
- Profit impact: 39% of organizations attribute any measurable EBIT impact to their AI use (McKinsey, Nov 2025).
- Automation ROI: 248% three-year ROI in a Forrester-modeled composite organization using Microsoft Power Automate, a vendor-commissioned study (Forrester TEI, Jul 2024).
- AI initiative ROI: 25% of AI initiatives delivered the ROI leaders expected over the past three years, per IBM's Q1 2025 CEO survey.