Transform or Fade: What 2026's Booming Digital Economy is Teaching Us
That is the defining business tension of 2026. A vanguard of roughly 12% of global enterprises, per PwC's 29th Global CEO Survey of 4,454 chief executives, has managed to deliver both revenue growth and cost reductions from AI simultaneously. These organizations are not just ahead. They are structurally pulling away. For everyone else, the 56% of CEOs who report no significant financial benefit from AI despite sustained investment, the clock is compounding against them.