State of Enterprise AI Adoption

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Loren Absher leads ISG’s AI Advisory practice in the Americas. He helps clients unlock business value from AI by bringing together all the elements required for success: the foundational data enablement strategies that make AI possible, the selection of the right use cases aligned to business priorities, the sourcing strategies that connect enterprises with the right provider ecosystem, and the implementation and adoption frameworks that drive sustained results, ensuring client strategies are consistently translated into outcomes. 

Alex leads the Primary Research Team where he focuses on study design, panel research, and interview based research for ISG. In addition to leading the Primary Research practice at ISG, Alex also serves as the lead analyst on provider pursuit effectiveness, and helps IT service providers understand how they can improve performance in the competitive process. 

Dorotea Baljević is a Director within the AI Acceleration Unit, enabling clients in their business, AI and data transformations while delivering value across the entire ecosystem.

Dorotea provides support and counsel to customers in their current and future digital journeys. Particularly focusing on improving and enhancing data and AI capabilities for the decision-making ecosystem to ensure healthy organisational longevity and relevance. This includes a focus on value driven outcomes, responsible use of data and AI, and shaping authentic and right-size solutions that align to the clients current and strategic needs.

Her spectrum of experience includes innovation, green-field environments, existing transformations (including building high performing teams), governance, regulatory preparation and compliance, development of digital threads and decommissioning.

Michael Dornan is a Principal Analyst in Provider Services based in the UK. He is responsible for ISG’s Buyer Behavior research program, helping providers navigate changing market dynamics, identify unmet enterprise demand, and position services and solutions that align to client needs.

Steve Hall is Chief AI Officer, leading the firm’s work to help clients create an AI strategy, select the right business partners and deliver meaningful value and outcomes. His industry-leading expertise in navigating the complexities of adopting technology at scale is helping both clients and ISG leverage AI to drive value into every aspect of their operations. Steve joined ISG in 2005 and has led ISG Digital Advisory Services, Emerging Technology Services, Global Product Engineering and Application Development & Maintenance. Trained as a software engineer, he serves on the Advisory Board of Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Regis University.

In ISG, Olga supports our advisory capability in developing digital solutions with special focus on data and analytics. Olga’s extensive knowledge of analytics and data engineering framework combined with hands on experience in complex transformational projects results in unique insights invaluable for effectively assessing the data analytics solutions for ISG’s clients.

David manages the software research and advisory for IT and leads the expertise in AI.  He oversees the team and expertise areas for software used by IT and for what is used by business. David leads the software research efforts in AI for IT and AI-infused software building on over three decades of experience in data and analytics. For decades, he has brought to market leading-edge analytics and data products in marketing and product leadership positions at Pivotal (a division of EMC), Vertica Systems, Oracle, Applix, InforSense, and IRI Software. David earned his MS in Business from Bentley University and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Gowtham Sampath is a Manager with ISG Research focusing on emerging technologies and their impact on businesses. He is also responsible for authoring Provider Lens quadrant reports for Banking Industry Services and Analytics Solutions & Services market. Gowtham’s responsibility includes authoring ongoing research articles and blogs on the data analytics market covering a broad spectrum of verticals and across functional domains. In his role, he also works with advisors in addressing enterprise clients' requests for ad-hoc research requirements within the IT services sector, across industries. 

Hannah Stapleton is a Marketing Director at ISG.