Because pilots don’t pay the bills.
Everyone’s “doing AI.”
But fewer than 1 in 10 enterprises are seeing measurable ROI.
(Source: Gartner, 2024)
GenAI without business value is just innovation theatre.
Your board wants productivity.
Your CFO wants efficiency.
Your teams want clarity.
What they don’t want is another sandbox experiment.
The companies getting GenAI right are doing 5 things differently:
1. They treat GenAI like a portfolio — not a playground.
Every initiative is scored by impact:
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🔁 Productivity uplift (%)
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💸 Cost reduction ($)
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⏱️ Time saved (hours per month)
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📈 Feasibility + speed to value
If it doesn’t move the needle in <90 days, it doesn’t go live.
And if it does?
It gets scaled.
2. They don’t automate departments. They optimize tasks.
70% of AI ROI comes from task-level transformation.
(Source: McKinsey Global Institute)
High-performers break work down:
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What should we automate?
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Where does AI assist?
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What do humans still do better?
Then they rewire the workflows.
And redeploy the talent.
3. They reskill early — not after the disruption.
GenAI will impact up to 40% of work hours across most roles.
(Source: Goldman Sachs, 2023)
Leaders don’t wait.
They map workforce risk before it hits revenue.
The best don’t just cut headcount.
They upskill high-performers into new roles.
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New workflows
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New capabilities
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New career paths
4. They benchmark like operators.
Every task gets an AI Opportunity Score.
Every department gets a Productivity Lift Index.
Every tool gets evaluated for real ROI.
You’re not competing with your past.
You’re competing with the market.
The smartest companies don’t just ask “What’s possible?”
They ask “What’s outperforming?”
Then they beat it.
5. They stop theorizing. They build.
Execution is the new edge.
High-performers are already deploying:
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🧠 Custom copilots built for specific workflows
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💼 LLM-powered decision assistants tied to business ops
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📊 Dashboards that show GenAI ROI by role, team, and process
TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read):
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90% of GenAI projects stall at the pilot phase
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Only 22% of execs say they’ve seen measurable ROI
(Source: Deloitte, 2024)
Want to be in the top 10%?
You need:
✔️ Task-level AI mapping
✔️ Talent transformation
✔️ Real-time ROI tracking
✔️ Relentless execution
High Risers is your GenAI execution engine.
We don’t do guesswork. We do ROI.