AI-ready, set, scale: a pragmatic pathway to successful enterprise AI adoption

Artificial intelligence

a pragmatic pathway to successful enterprise AI adoption
Emily Peet-Lukes

Emily Peet-Lukes

Apr 28, 2026

AI is reshaping how organizations create, find, and apply knowledge. For many teams, the challenge is no longer experimentation. It is making AI deliver consistent, secure, and scalable results.

In AI-ready, set, scale: a pragmatic pathway to successful enterprise AI adoption, Accenture and Appfire examine why AI initiatives often stall after early pilots and what differentiates organizations that successfully scale impact.

The issue is not model capability. It is how knowledge, workflows, and systems are structured to support AI in day-to-day operations.

“AI doesn't make disconnected teams more productive. It makes them more expensively disconnected. The organisations winning right now invested in how their people work together before they invested in the tools.”

Billy Rollin, Managing Director, Accenture and Atlassian Partnership


This whitepaper outlines a practical path forward:

  • How to make knowledge usable for AI through structure and governance
  • How to apply AI within real workflows, not alongside them
  • How to measure what changes and scale what works

If your organization is investing in AI and working through how to operationalize it at scale, this whitepaper provides a clear, experience-led perspective on what comes next.

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