REPORT · ACCILIUM

The State of AI-Transformation.

What actually works and what organisations still need to learn about AI. The complete approach we use to guide ourselves and our clients through the transformation.

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WHY ORGANISATIONS MUST ACT NOW

A gap is widening between what AI can do and what organisations actually use.

AI develops exponentially. Organisations develop linearly. A gap opens between the two curves, and it widens every month.

15%

of all work decisions will run autonomously by 2028 (2024: zero)*

33%

of enterprise software will include agentic AI by 2028 (2024: under 1%)*

40%

of AI projects will be cancelled before they create value (by 2027)*

*Source: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2026; Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027

TECHNOLOGY AS A LEVER

What defines an intelligent organisation, and what holds it together.

“AI is a real lever for Europe as a location. What matters is that we think about technology and people together. That is precisely the task.

Alexander Hotowy
Managing Partner & Strategy Practice Lead, accilium

“An agentic organisation is more than a group of people using AI tools. It is an intelligent system that operates. Agents communicate with people as equals, with the knowledge and the tools of an organisation. They dissolve the organisational barriers that have always existed until now.”

Peter Allan
Managing Partner & Technology Practice Lead, accilium

"Three things to start: leadership has to learn it firsthand, build a team that knows the tools and understands your business, and tie the whole effort to a real business goal, not to curiosity."

Alexander Rauscher
Managing Partner & Performance Practice Lead, accilium

THE VISION

What happens when organisations develop their own intelligence.

The lever for successful AI transformation lies not only in choosing the right tools. It lies in organisational development. That is where it is decided whether an organisation develops its own intelligence or stops at individual tools.

Speed

New AI capabilities are deployed within days. Traditional organisations need quarters. The lead grows every week.

Collaboration

Teams consist of people and agents. Tasks that once took weeks are done before the day is over.

Value creation

Organisations serve fields that were previously not viable. Not because the markets have grown, but because cognitive capacity has grown.

WHY ACCILIUM?

Before we talk about AI transformation, we carried it out on ourselves.

Experience from our own transformation

For two years we have been rebuilding our own organisation. A new version every week. Every employee is part of this journey. We know every stumbling block because we stumbled over it ourselves, so that you can avoid the same mistakes.

Experience from client projects

Strategy, governance, enablement, agent implementation, HR transformation. We have delivered the full range, from the first course-setting decision to live operation. With our software development subsidiary &amp, we bring concepts not just onto paper but into production.

“We transformed ourselves. We know what works and what does not, where to start and what can be achieved in a short time.”

Jennifer Duhs
Associate Partner,
Strategy Practice, accilium

“Our ambition is to make as many mistakes as possible first and pass on the learnings. That is the more honest approach when talking about AI.”

David Schneiderbauer
Associate Partner,
Energy Practice, accilium

“We do not just draw up concepts. We implement them at the client and bring them into production, at a speed many cannot match.”

Alex Rinner
Senior Manager,
Technology Practice, accilium

OUR STANCE

We make organisations intelligent, and put people at the centre.

The debate about AI is mostly about what technology can take over. We are equally interested in what it makes possible for the people in an organisation. Technology strengthens their judgement, their responsibility and their creative power. People are left with more room for what only they can do.

“AI provides information. But you still need the person you trust to make sense of it and check that it holds up.”

Christian Schneider, Partner, People Practice Lead, accilium

“AI changes how work is done and which skills are needed. That is why you have to bring people along from the start, rather than presenting them with a done deal at the end.”

Jacqueline Binder, Manager, People Practice, accilium

THE REPORT

accilium's complete approach to artificial intelligence

We have brought together our complete approach to AI transformation in one report, the approach we use to guide ourselves and our clients through the change.