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Enterprises Move Beyond Digital Transformation to AI-First Operations

Enterprises Move Beyond Digital Transformation to AI-First Operations
Moving beyond plug-and-play · financialexpress.com

Computers and digital tools once made companies special, because not everyone had them.

Today, almost all big companies have them, so they are no longer special.

An expert named Sridhar Mantha wrote an article about the next big change.

He says companies should become 'AI-first,' which means letting smart computer programs called AI help with decisions and work.

Many companies already use some AI — 88% of them use it in at least one part of their business.

But only about one in three companies really use AI across everything they do.

AI can help factories avoid breaking down and help banks check risks much faster than before.

Some companies are using AI to invent new products, and one in four are testing AI that can do jobs with many steps on its own.

Experts believe AI could add trillions of dollars to the world's economy every year.

Companies that learn to use AI deeply, instead of just pretending to, will likely become the new leaders.

Key facts

Author
Sridhar Mantha, CEO of Generative AI Business Services (GBS) at Happiest Minds Technologies
Publication
Financial Express (opinion piece)
Companies using AI in at least one business function
88%
Companies that scaled AI across the enterprise
About one-third (McKinsey)
Companies building new products or changing core processes with AI
One-third (Deloitte State of AI in Enterprise 2026)
Organizations piloting agentic AI
One in four
Enterprise AI deployments underpinned by cloud infrastructure
More than 65% (IDC and Gartner)
Projected annual AI contribution to the global economy
$2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion (McKinsey Global Institute)

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