The 2026 Process Optimization Report: Inside India's Business-Critical Processes - Celonis

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly disappeared. That's not a you problem. That's an implementation problem nobody warned you about. A new report surveying enterprise leaders

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly disappeared.

That's not a you problem. That's an implementation problem nobody warned you about.


A new report surveying enterprise leaders found something worth sitting with: 91% believe AI can only deliver ROI if the underlying business processes are solid first. Not the technology. The processes.

This reframes everything. Most AI tools fail not because the software is bad, but because they're dropped into broken or unclear workflows and expected to perform miracles.

You don't need a smarter tool. You need to identify one specific, repeatable process that already works — and find where a small AI assist makes it faster or cheaper. That's the entry point.


Here's the practical move: Before evaluating any AI tool, write down the five tasks your team repeats every single week. Pick the most time-consuming one. That's where your first AI win lives — not in a full system overhaul.

One process. One tool. Thirty days. Measure it.

That's how you go from "we wasted money on AI" to "I actually know what this thing does for us."


Which repeatable task in your business do you think is quietly draining the most time each week?

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What does Enterprise AI need to succeed? And what role do processes ... 91% believe that AI solutions can only deliver ROI if they have the ...