{"id":249526,"date":"2026-05-19T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:50:08","slug":"the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Companies Are Struggling to Scale AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Real Reason Companies Are Struggling to Scale AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-19 11:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Every company says AI is a priority. Budgets are going up. Executive buy-in is strong. So why does scaling feel so hard for so many organizations?<\/p>\n

Because the barrier to artificial intelligence isn\u2019t the technology. It\u2019s the operational infrastructure underneath it.<\/p>\n

New research from PYMNTS Intelligence shows that financial services, healthcare and media and advertising companies face very different obstacles to deploying AI at scale. And while ambition is shared across all three sectors, what\u2019s blocking progress is unique to each one.<\/p>\n

What the Data Shows<\/strong><\/h2>\n

AI budget growth is real across the board. Eighty-five percent of financial services and insurance firms plan to increase AI spending over the next 12 months. Media and advertising companies are close behind at 80%. Healthcare trails at 60%, though for reasons the data quickly explains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The reasons behind that spending reveal just as much. Financial services firms tie their investment to productivity gains and competitive positioning, both at 65%. Healthcare, by contrast, leans heavily on pilot funding with no formal ROI requirements, cited by 60% of firms. That\u2019s not a sign of lower commitment. It\u2019s a sign of an industry still figuring out where artificial intelligence fits in clinical and operational workflows. Media and advertising points to executive-driven strategic alignment, at 50%, but only 25% of firms in that sector can point to hard financial metrics to justify the spend.<\/p>\n

The barriers follow a similar pattern. Financial services firms are held back mainly by data quality problems, cited by 30% as the single biggest obstacle. Clean, standardized data is the foundation for nearly every AI use case in that sector, and too much of it still isn\u2019t there. Healthcare faces two equally serious problems at the same time: system integration and data quality are each cited by 30% of firms. That double constraint is what makes AI so difficult to scale in clinical environments, where patient data…<\/p>\n

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