And 85% believe they have less than 18 months to deploy an AI strategy or they will see negative business effects. Companies that take a “wait and see” approach will fall behind, says Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco. Two-thirds (68%) of organizations say their infrastructure is moderately ready at best to adopt and scale AI technologies. Good quality, well-managed enterprise-wide data is also essential—after all, AI is only as good as the data it draws on. AI tools that may have been used were limited to secondary production processes that passed thorough human review.