{"slug": "closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering", "title": "Closing The AI Execution Gap: Why AI Initiatives Can Stall Before Delivering Value", "summary": "Forbes Councils member Patrick Pugh reports that the AI execution gap—the distance between what organizations have invested in AI and what they have realized from it—is rarely a technology problem, but rather a failure to bridge strategy and execution. Pugh argues that initiatives stall because of unclear business objectives, lack of change management, and insufficient data readiness, not because of the AI models themselves.", "body_md": "# Closing The AI Execution Gap: Why AI Initiatives Can Stall Before Delivering Value\n\nBy Patrick Pugh, Forbes Councils MemberSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)The AI execution gap is the distance between what organizations have poured into AI and what they've realized from it, and that gap is rarely a technology problem.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-be-w68g", "published_at": "2026-08-18 10:15:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 11:10:55.027859+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Patrick Pugh", "Forbes Councils", "Forbes"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/closing-the-ai-execution-gap-why-ai-initiatives-can-stall-before-delivering.jsonld"}}