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Here’s How to Nail Your AI Presentation to the Board

Focus board presentations on AI’s strategic impact, not technology.

As artificial intelligence reshapes business and redefines competitive advantage, senior executives need to understand the technology of AI but communicate its impact to the board.

The Gartner BOARD principles — Brief, Open, Accurate, Relevant and Diplomatic — offer a proven framework to ensure your AI strategy presentations effectively communicate to the board current issues and opportunities with AI so you can turn strategy into practice and ROI.

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Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering

Complete the picture by adding context for smarter AI.

There’s a huge gap between today’s AI — prone to hallucinations and incomplete results —  and the powerful, all-knowing AI of futuristic science fiction. The difference is a matter of dimension. Context adds depth, transforming AI from that of a black-and-white comic strip into a 3D virtual world.

Today’s AI lacks information breadth and depth — the details humans take for granted.

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Leaders Today Must Routinize, Not Inspire, Change

Empower your teams to make change intuitive and a normal part of everyday work.

Change is constant, complex and often beyond leadership control. And most employees don’t trust organizational change, feeling skeptical about both past decisions and future initiatives. Gartner finds that only 32% of leaders globally actually get employees to adopt changes in a healthy way.

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Build a Competitive Supply Chain Automation Strategy That Avoids Costly Mistakes

Automation and robotics adoption is accelerating. Choosing the best-fit software will keep you from falling behind.

By 2028, 80% of warehouses and distribution centers will deploy some form of warehouse automation equipment. This growing adoption of materials handling equipment (MHE) and intralogistics smart robotics (ISR) brings huge opportunities — but narrowing down the available software options to manage it is often a massive challenge.

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ThinkCast | Turn AI Promises Into Measurable Business Outcomes

Executives are asking the same question in 2025: Where is the value AI was supposed to deliver?

In this episode of ThinkCast, Gartner experts Mary Mesaglio and Rita Sallam outline how leaders can define, measure and maximize AI value across the enterprise. From productivity gains that don’t translate directly to financial returns, to high-stakes bets that could rewrite industry rules, they explain why leaders must manage AI investments as a balanced portfolio — spanning return on investment, return on employee and return on the future.

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Microsoft X Gartner | Shaping the Future of AI Readiness

Ibrahim Hamza, Azure Data & AI Leader at Microsoft, shares how partnering with Gartner has helped accelerate decision-making, validate go-to market strategies and guide customers through the next phase of generative and agentic AI adoption. Watch now.

🙌 Thank you to our experts, Tina Nunno , Avivah Litan , Carolina Valencia , Simon 'Tunstall' , Benjamin J. , Vas Plessas , Mary Mesaglio , Rita Sallam , and Birgi Tamersoy contributing to this article.

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