AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.
Strategies for enterprise teams who aim to build a data foundation to move the institution from AI experimentation to real-world execution.
Gartner recently forecast that worldwide IT spending will total $6.31 trillion in 2026, a 13.5% increase from 2025. Sectors experiencing the largest growth include data center systems, software, and IT services.
Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.