{"id":92953,"date":"2021-08-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=92953"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:25:36","slug":"european-companies-limping-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/european-companies-limping-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"European companies lag behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, more than half of the companies surveyed are in the early stages of AI development and are classified as either beginners or implementers. Leading the way are twelve percent of respondents, with the UK (18 percent) and Germany (16 percent) leading the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapid growth of AI is reflected in 33 percent of companies being among the frontrunners, just behind the top performers. More than two-thirds of European companies believe AI is critical to the future of their business. <\/p><div id=\"great-697348517\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies in all the European countries surveyed see AI as important, especially in the UK and Scandinavian countries, but Germany is not far behind. When it comes to implementing almost all areas of AI, companies in Europe lag behind those in the Americas and Asia-Pacific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They lag behind especially on the HR side: developing and recruiting AI talent, leveraging the ecosystem, and coordinating AI experts and business teams are all causing problems. The one area where European companies are ahead is in defining business cases and implementation plans, reflecting their thoughtful approach to AI.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help executives drive ROI from AI, ESI ThoughtLab conducted a global benchmarking study of 1200 companies in 15 countries. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39637],"tags":[624,4434],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-92953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-nachrichten","category-mag-21-07","tag-ki-joule","tag-roi","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","image-100":"","image-480":"","image-640":"","image-720":"","image-960":"","image-1168":"","image-1440":"","image-1920":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","bricks_large_16x9":"","bricks_large":"","bricks_large_square":"","bricks_medium":"","bricks_medium_square":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Um F\u00fchrungskr\u00e4fte dabei zu unterst\u00fctzen, den ROI von KI voranzutreiben, hat ESI ThoughtLab eine weltweite Benchmarking-Studie unter 1200 Unternehmen in 15 L\u00e4ndern durchgef\u00fchrt. <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/sap-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Community Nachrichten<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/mag-21-07\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 21-07<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}