{"id":144251,"date":"2026-06-02T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/?p=144251"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:02:24","slug":"what-is-needed-for-a-successfull-ai-adoption-lessons-from-gartner-data-analytics-summit-2026-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/news-feed\/what-is-needed-for-a-successfull-ai-adoption-lessons-from-gartner-data-analytics-summit-2026-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"What is needed for a successfull AI adoption? Lessons from\u00a0Gartner Data &amp; Analytics Summit 2026 in London\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-sii-nsw-container container container-0e8cfdb5-e15f-4214-b1d0-dad470e02025\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.container-0e8cfdb5-e15f-4214-b1d0-dad470e02025 {  }\n                         @media screen and (max-width: 991px) { .container-0e8cfdb5-e15f-4214-b1d0-dad470e02025 {  } }<\/style><p><strong>This year\u2019s Gartner Data &amp; Analytics Summit gathered data and AI leaders from across Europe at London\u2019s&nbsp;ExCeL.&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;Poland&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Team<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;was represented by Marcin Mosiolek, AI Offering Lead, and Malgorzata&nbsp;Wodzislawska, Data &amp; Analytics&nbsp;Competency Center&nbsp;Director.&nbsp;They come back with one clear takeaway \u2013 the era of \u201clet\u2019s try AI\u201d is over, and what matters now is who,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>and how,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;actually leads AI in their organization.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The most-cited figure&nbsp;was:&nbsp;\u201cFour out of five companies increased their AI investment over the past year, but only one in five can point to a concrete return.\u201d&nbsp;So, the question \u201cshould we invest in AI\u201d has dropped off the agenda \u2013 the harder one took its place:&nbsp;How do we invest without throwing money&nbsp;away?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Leaders, not bystanders&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>One theme kept coming back&nbsp;in&nbsp;London \u2013 who actually leads AI transformation inside an organization. Gartner showed that&nbsp;companies&nbsp;that&nbsp;treat&nbsp;AI as part of their business strategy, rather than just another IT project, deliver noticeably better results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>If you don\u2019t lead AI, AI will lead you. The people in your company are already using AI tools \u2013 or trying to build them. It is up to leaders whether that happens in a controlled and secure way &#8211; says <strong>Marcin Mosiolek, AI Offering Lead at Sii Poland.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The same point came through in every strategy session in London. Data and analytics leaders are no longer the technical owners of data \u2013 they are becoming the architects of&nbsp;key&nbsp;decisions. They are accountable not for the data itself, but for how the company makes&nbsp;the moves&nbsp;in a world powered by models.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>No people, no AI&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>The second thread running through&nbsp;almost every&nbsp;session in London \u2013 the biggest barrier to scaling AI is no longer the models or the&nbsp;infrastructure;&nbsp;it is the teams. Deployments not paired with skill&nbsp;building,&nbsp;and a change in how decisions are made tend to end as expensive experiments with no follow-up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Investing in AI without investing in people is throwing money away. Models will do exactly as much as our people allow them to \u2013 their skills, their habits, and their trust in the technology &#8211; says <strong>Marcin Mosiolek, AI Offering Lead at Sii Poland.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This mirrors our day-to-day work across financial services,&nbsp;energy,&nbsp;and manufacturing. The companies that treat AI adoption as a competence&nbsp;program&nbsp;from day one, not a tooling swap, deliver results visibly faster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Natural ignorance before Artificial Intelligence&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Day 2 of the summit was dominated by&nbsp;<em>governance<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 particularly of unstructured data. The conclusion was simple: without a structured understanding of your own data and processes, AI has nothing to work with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Before dealing with artificial intelligence, we need to deal with natural ignorance. Not understanding your own processes, data and strategic goals is a bigger risk today than any limitation of the models themselves &#8211; says <strong>Malgorzata Wodzislawska, Data &amp; Analytics Director at Sii Poland.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Mature organizations are going back to the fundamentals \u2013 data&nbsp;catalogs, data quality, process mapping,&nbsp;and a shared business-IT language.&nbsp;Only on that foundation does AI start delivering value you can actually measure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Will AI kill BI?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>One of the most thought-provoking discussions at Gartner Data &amp; Analytics Summit 2026 focused on the future relationship between AI and Business Intelligence. The key message was clear: AI is unlikely to replace BI; instead, the two are converging.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>AI is transforming how users interact with data, but semantic consistency, data lineage, and a single source of truth remain non-negotiable. The future belongs to organizations that successfully combine AI-driven innovation with strong data foundations, ensuring that every insight is accurate, explainable, and business-ready &#8211; continues <strong>Malgorzata Wodzislawska, Data &amp; Analytics Director at Sii Poland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Gartner highlighted Agentic Analytics as the emerging model, combining AI-driven reasoning with BI-driven governance to deliver both agility and trust in decision-making.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AI and layoffs \u2013 the myth versus the numbers&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Among the numbers cited in London was one that cuts through the media narrative. The story of \u201cAI replacing people\u201d is running well ahead of what the&nbsp;labour-market data actually shows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>For D&amp;A&nbsp;leaders&nbsp;this points to two concrete moves: transparent internal communication and building hybrid teams in which people and models complement each other in specific decision processes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lessons from London&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Three days at&nbsp;ExCeL&nbsp;leave us with&nbsp;a short list&nbsp;of principles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checked\"><li>Start with strategy and decisions, not tools.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checked\"><li>Treat AI as a people-development&nbsp;program.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checked\"><li>Put data and processes in order before reaching for advanced models.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checked\"><li>And run an open conversation in your organization about what AI&nbsp;actually changes&nbsp;\u2013 and what it&nbsp;doesn\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n<p>Through its AI and Data &amp; Analytics Competency Center,&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;Poland supports clients in AI strategy, data governance, machine learning&nbsp;development&nbsp;and responsible adoption of&nbsp;Artificial&nbsp;Intelligence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":144247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[5742],"class_list":["post-144251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1920x740_cover-www-worker_gartner.jpg","category_names":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144300,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144251\/revisions\/144300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}