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McKinsey Doesn't Understand AI

Don't bet your company's AI future on consultants

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Dave Friedman
Jun 18, 2025
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For the past 18 months, enterprises have been duct-taping chatbots to workflows and calling it digital transformation. The results speak for themselves: 80% adoption, 0% impact on EBITDA. Now, in a new report, McKinsey finally admits the obvious: copilots don’t move the needle. Their proposed solution? Replace them with “agentic” AI and redesign the ent…

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