AI in business:

a full-scale test for governance

By Virgil Benyayer

AI, the mirror of organizational flaws

According to McKinsey (2025), 92% of companies plan to increase their investment in AI over the next three years. Yet only 1% consider themselves mature in their use.

  • This reveals a paradox: many invest, but very few actually transform.
  • AI acts as a cruel mirror: it reveals silos, areas of inaction and governance blind spots.

Massive investment, limited transformation

Why such a gap between ambitions and results?

  • Because AI is often integrated as a technical tool, not as a strategic lever.

  • Because it is applied to complex, inefficient organizations, where it onlyamplifies dysfunction.

The result: projects that consume resources but don’t create sustainable value.

Trust: a key differentiating factor

As Dr Elea Wurth (Deloitte Asia-Pacific) points out:

“As implementation accelerates, it’s trust, not just technology, that is emerging as the real differentiator.”

Companies with more mature AI governance show :

  • 28% higher employee adoption,

  • and sales growth of almost 5%.

Technology alone is not enough: it’s the decision-making framework, lucid arbitration and trust in governance that make the difference.

Governance and AI: an inseparable duo

AI is challenging companies’ ability to :

  • simplify their processes,

  • align their strategic decisions,

  • assume a structured, shared vision.

Without this clear governance, even the best technology remains sterile.

With it, AI becomes a powerful amplifier of growth and innovation levers.

Conclusion: AI will not replace strategy

AI won’t change a company if it doesn’t transform the way it decides, organizes and projects itself.

It’s not the technological stack that will make the difference, but the ability to assume a clear and coherent vision.

In other words: AI will put your governance to the test. What counts is your ability to draw confidence, alignment and meaning from it.

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