Organizations with Successful AI Initiatives Invest Up to Four Times More in Data and Analytics Foundations: Gartner
Organizations that report successful AI initiatives invest up to
four times more (as a percentage of revenue) in foundational areas, such as
data quality, governance, AI-ready people and change
management, compared to those that experience poor outcomes from AI, according
to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.
However, a global survey of 353 data and analytics (D&A) and AI leaders
from November through December 2025 also found that only 39% of technology leaders
are confident that their enterprise’s current AI investments will have a
positive impact on financial performance.
“D&A leaders play a central role in
achieving their organisation’s AI value ambition,” said Rita Sallam, Distinguished VP Analyst,
Gartner Fellow and Chief of Research at Gartner. “Through 2030, the D&A
leader’s mandate is to deliver foundational areas, including new trusted data,
context foundations and perceptive intelligence. Responding to this mandate
will require shifts in how the D&A team organizes and works, builds and
scales and creates value.
This shift starts and ends with an AI ambition for leveraging
AI to transform, not tweak, business and operating models aligned to
achieve audacious business objectives. Pioneering leadership is required to
apply new technology in high value, innovative ways.
The future is not about replacing humans, but
amplifying their ingenuity,” said Sallam. “Because AI will create extra
capacity, D&A teams will shrink in size and expand in impact. AI-first
D&A organizations will have smaller, “tiny” teams organized as decision
pods of broad-skilled talent augmented by AI and AI agents specialists focused
on business outcomes. We see pacesetting companies experimenting with teams as
small as one “technical” person and one “business” person.”
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