{"id":8065,"date":"2026-06-24T08:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/the-5-types-of-ai-investment-and-how-to-capture-their-value\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:13:43","slug":"the-5-types-of-ai-investment-and-how-to-capture-their-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/the-5-types-of-ai-investment-and-how-to-capture-their-value\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Types of AI Investment\u2013and How to Capture Their Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__UwInRW__text\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Corporate leaders are starting to worry about the returns\u2014or lack thereof\u2014on their recent AI investments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/quantumblack\/our-insights\/the-state-of-ai\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\">McKinsey\u2019s 2025 Global Survey<\/a> found that 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, but only 39% report any impact on EBIT, and even among those, the impact is typically less than 5%. <a href=\"https:\/\/media-publications.bcg.com\/The-Widening-AI-Value-Gap-Sept-2025.pdf\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\">BCG\u2019s analysis<\/a> reveals that 60% of companies investing in AI generate no material value, and only 5% create substantial value at scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deloitte.com\/global\/en\/issues\/generative-ai\/ai-roi-the-paradox-of-rising-investment-and-elusive-returns.html\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\">Deloitte\u2019s survey<\/a> of nearly 2,000 executives finds that satisfactory ROI on a typical AI use case takes two to four years, which is much longer than the seven-to-twelve-month payback typically expected for technology investments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v19.2&amp;appId=1761258887507575&amp;xfbml=false&amp;status=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>#Types #Investmentand #Capture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate leaders are starting to worry about the returns\u2014or lack thereof\u2014on their recent AI investments. McKinsey\u2019s 2025 Global Survey found that 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, but only 39% report any impact on EBIT, and even among those, the impact is typically less than 5%. 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