{"id":108265,"date":"2026-01-30T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lafosse.com\/?p=108265"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:23:50","slug":"ai-reality-check-why-70-of-projects-fail-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lafosse.com\/insights\/ai-reality-check-why-70-of-projects-fail-and-what-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"AI reality check: why 70% of projects fail and what to do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The gap between <strong>AI ambition and AI reality<\/strong> is growing. Boards want <strong>ROI within twelve months.<\/strong> Tech leaders know that&#8217;s not how transformational technology works. And caught in the middle? Everyone trying to make <strong>AI\u00a0actually deliver\u00a0value.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lafosse.com\/events\/ai-reality-check-the-uncomfortable-truth-uk-business-leaders-need-to-face-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Reality Check roundtable<\/a>, we gathered senior leaders from financial services, media, pharmaceuticals,\u00a0law\u00a0and consulting to tackle the\u00a0hard questions\u00a0about what&#8217;s working,\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0failing and why.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The 70% problem<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Let&#8217;s\u00a0start with the uncomfortable truth: <strong>70% of AI projects fail in their first year.\u00a0<\/strong>That&#8217;s\u00a0not a technology problem.\u00a0<strong>It&#8217;s\u00a0an expectation problem.<\/strong><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lafosse.com\/team\/ollie-whiting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ollie Whiting<\/a>, CEO of La Fosse, put it in historical context. The desktop PC took over a decade to achieve meaningful productivity gains. The web followed a similar pattern.\u00a0We&#8217;re\u00a0four years into the AI revolution and somehow expecting instant transformation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;The <strong>impatience of boards, investors and shareholders<\/strong> to get ROI over the line in such a short space of time is one of the key reasons for failure. We&#8217;re letting history repeat itself and wandering a bit blindly into this.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Who\u00a0actually owns\u00a0AI governance?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ask ten organisations\u00a0who&#8217;s\u00a0responsible for AI governance and\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0get ten different answers. Legal thinks they own it. Security thinks they own it. The CTO wants centralised control. Individual business units are just getting on with it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The roundtable revealed a common pattern: <strong>ambitious governance forums<\/strong> that aim to track every AI initiative, but reality falling short. As one participant from Pacific Life Re put it, the intention is\u00a0good\u00a0but the <strong>execution is fragmented.<\/strong> Different territories have different regulatory understandings, and when something goes through legal and compliance first, the immediate answer is often no.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Guardian&#8217;s Chief AI Officer, shared their approach: <strong>principles first, product second, monitoring third.<\/strong> They&#8217;ve published AI principles, built governance into their product development and continuously take the temperature of both staff and readers. Media organisations face particular scrutiny, with readers anxious to know whether AI is involved in journalism.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The AI veneer is cracking<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remember when every company rushed to build mobile apps in the early 2010s? Those apps were\u00a0essentially mobile\u00a0websites, and they quickly revealed all the cracks in back-end infrastructure. Five years of data infrastructure spending followed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We&#8217;re\u00a0about to see the <strong>same pattern with AI.<\/strong> Organisations are throwing <strong>agents onto badly designed processes<\/strong> and wondering why they\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0deliver value. The shiny AI tool you bought last quarter?\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0probably falling\u00a0over because the whole <strong>end-to-end process\u00a0hasn&#8217;t\u00a0been designed.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Anu Doll, Founder of Synexra, provided the strategic anchor for the session, arguing that AI\u2019s true value lies in <strong>weaponising a firm\u2019s competitive moats<\/strong> through an <strong>Agentic Operating Model.<\/strong> Her framework identifies the high-leverage capabilities where intelligence creates genuine market distinction rather than mere efficiency. By bridging the <strong>\u201cAutonomy Gap\u201d<\/strong>; the distance between strategic ambition and foundational readiness, Synexra ensures that infrastructure, data and governance are hardened to support &#8220;Autonomous Flow,&#8221; transitioning teams from task executors to <strong>Intelligence Orchestrators<\/strong> of unique, high-growth value chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The democratisation imperative<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here&#8217;s\u00a0a stark reality from La Fosse: <strong>40-50% of a recruiter&#8217;s working week is spent on tasks that could be automated.<\/strong> They could be driving double the productivity doing work they\u00a0actually enjoy. But they\u00a0can&#8217;t, because <strong>AI\u00a0hasn&#8217;t\u00a0been democratised.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Too much energy is being spent on centralised governance and not enough on <strong>getting AI into end users&#8217; hands <\/strong>with the right guardrails. The desktop PC only delivered productivity gains when everyone had one on their desk. The web only transformed business when it was democratised. AI will follow the same pattern.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One participant, working with Soho House, described the advantage of smaller organisations: no labyrinthine governance structures, no siloed AI officers blocking everything. Instead,\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0showing\u00a0business people\u00a0how tools like Claude work, planting seeds and watching ideas develop.\u00a0That&#8217;s\u00a0where the real ROI comes from.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The leadership learning gap<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Research shared at the roundtable revealed a troubling <strong>lack of trust in board-level AI decision-making<\/strong> among tech professionals. Part of this is communication. Does your front-line team know about the AI training the exec team did over Christmas? Probably not.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0also about humility. As one CEO put it, leaders need to admit they might not have the answers they had for the last decade. The CTO who\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0understand business processes is destined to fail. The Chief AI Officer who only knows AI and not the heritage of technology is equally doomed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The consensus:<strong> AI literacy must be mandatory from top to bottom.<\/strong> <strong>Cross-functional leadership\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0optional.<\/strong> Gone are the days of siloed executives who only understand their own domain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Don&#8217;t\u00a0forget the humans<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When ROI is measured in <strong>headcount saved and roles reduced<\/strong>, employees get scared. Redundancy announcements and layoffs erode <strong>psychological safety<\/strong>, regardless of the productivity gains promised.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But reframe the conversation around <strong>personal productivity<\/strong>, around how many hours a week can you save, and something shifts. People feel empowered. They want to perform better. They engage with the tools rather than fearing them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0soft thinking.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0fundamental to successful AI adoption. The organisations that crack this balance between transformation and cultural safety will be the ones that succeed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s\u00a0next?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This roundtable was the start of an ongoing conversation.\u00a0We&#8217;re\u00a0committed to bringing together leaders who are navigating <strong>AI implementation in the real world.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you want to be part of the next discussion, or if\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0wrestling with AI challe<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nges in your organisation, get in touch. 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