Continuing the earlier blog on what sustainability professionals can learn from the business world’s uptake of AI …Here are three graphics from the McKinsey study that demonstrate AI high performers already seem to have an impressive grasp of how to implement AI through the company, who has responsibility and how success is measured (both in KPIs and financial performance). The numbers along the x-axis are percent of respondents answering in the affirmative.



What strikes me about these survey results is how rapidly and definitively companies adopted AI into operating and financial fundamentals. Take a look at those nine survey points and replace “gen AI” with “ESG/sustainability” – where does your company sit on these scales – especially in comparison with where your company is on the new gen AI journey? If on the low end, you need to investigate how the company quantified ROI for gen AI and apply those concepts to sustainability.
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