Why Your AI Strategy Is Stalling — And Who Needs to Own It

Across large organizations, a predictable failure pattern plays out: leadership recognizes AI is urgent, forms a committee, delegates it down, and moves on. Six months later, every department has a different tool, contradictory policies, and no coherent direction.

According to Educause's 2025 AI Landscape Study, 57% of institutions consider AI a strategic priority. Only 22% have an institution-wide strategy. More than half are managing adoption on an ad hoc basis.

Key Takeaways

• The "we have a committee working on it" response is a failure signal, not a progress signal. Committees don't have resource authority. Executives do.
• AI is a change management challenge first, a technology challenge second. Organizations that treat it as an IT project consistently stall.
• 34% of educators believe executive leaders are underestimating AI adoption costs, and only 2% report new funding sources have been identified.

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