20+ AI Business Trends For 2026
This Week In Business AI [Week #50-2025]
In my 2024 research on AI Business Trends for 2025, I explored the critical shifts emerging from the “ChatGPT moment” of November 2022. Now, as we close 2025 and look toward 2026, one thing is crystal clear: we’ve crossed a fundamental threshold.
20+ AI Business Trends For 2025!
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
2025 was the year AI moved beyond demos and pilots into operational reality. According to IDC FutureScape 2026, agentic AI is now reshaping how work gets done, how people contribute, and how industries will grow. By 2030, 45% of organizations will orchestrate AI agents at scale, embedding them across business functions.
This research continues the compass I developed—what I call “AI Convergence”—now refined with another year of intense field observations, commercial applications through WordLift, and analysis of how the AI industry is maturing from infrastructure buildout to value realization.
“Leaders can’t control the geopolitical and technology crosscurrents shaping today’s economy. But with a clear AI transformation strategy, strong data and infrastructure, and a skilled AI-ready workforce, they can turn disruption into advantage.” — Rick Villars, IDC
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The weekly newsletter is in the spirit of what it means to be a Business Engineer:
We always want to ask three core questions:
What’s the shape of the underlying technology that connects the value prop to its product?
What’s the shape of the underlying business that connects the value prop to its distribution?
How does the business survive in the short term while adhering to its long-term vision through transitional business modeling and market dynamics?
These non-linear analyses aim to isolate the short-term buzz and noise, identify the signal, and ensure that the short-term and the long-term can be reconciled.