Ey On Ai From Insight To Impact

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Nov 29, 2025, 9:00 PM

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Artificial Intelligence isn't just a trend; it's a seismic shift in capital allocation. Venture capital is flowing into AI at an unprecedented rate, reshaping the entire tech landscape and creating a clear divide between AI-native companies and the rest of the field. A 29% increase quarter-over-quarter, overwhelmingly driven by a few massive AI deals. Fueled by AI, the IT sector attracted nearly half of all VC funding in Q2 2024. While leaders across sectors recognize AI's transformative potential, a significant gap exists between strategic ambition and on-the-ground implementation. Key barriers, especially in the public sector, are slowing the pace of true integration.

Government executives who see significant savings and enhanced services from AI. As the year begins, the tech industry reflects on the impact of AI across the world and looks ahead to what is to come. Analysing the future opportunities of AI for the global tech sector, Ernst & Young (EY) has released a report of how AI is likely to transform even further, on top of the opportunities awaiting... This research aims as a guide for companies looking to utilise AI and keep up with its development, particularly facing challenges in Gen AI and autonomous systems. The challenges as a result of AI development are sweeping across the world, including shifting investor expectations and increasing scrutiny of AI deployment; which is causing most companies to feel the pressure to redefine... Therefore, EY spoke to its own leaders amongst its research to gain personal insight from the people navigating the complex intersection of innovation, market demands and regulation, particularly in key markets including the EU,...

How do the knowledge leaders learn about AI? UNLEASH sits down for an exclusive interview with Raj Sharma, EY Global Managing Partner of Growth and Innovation, to get the full story. One of the world's largest consultancies, EY, is going 'all in' on its AI strategy through a $1.4 billion investment. Upskilling has played a crucial role in preparing EY's 400,000-strong global workforce for the AI era. UNLEASH speaks exclusively to Raj Sharma, EY Global Managing Partner of Growth and Innovation, to get the inside story of the consultancy giant's AI strategy. Going ‘all in’ is often a calculated risk – even the surest of hands isn’t a guaranteed winner, but when it comes to AI and the future of work, organizations are becoming more confident...

Personal interpretation and synthesis of EY's AI initiatives... EY has been consistently dominating headlines and industry conversations with its bold and unwavering focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Driven by sheer curiosity to understand the depth of their initiatives, I embarked on a journey to piece together the unfolding EY AI story, drawing from recent articles and insightful LinkedIn posts from EY's... What follows is my personal interpretation and synthesis of their efforts, a narrative constructed from publicly available information. It's important to note that these are my own observations and points, and may not encompass the entirety of EY's official perspective. Furthermore, this is a dynamic and rapidly evolving space, and this compilation may not be entirely comprehensive.

However, if you, the reader, uncover additional pieces of this fascinating puzzle, I implore you to share them. Together, we can illuminate EY's ambitious AI journey and make it known to the world! EY embarked on its AI journey with a clear and ambitious vision: to not just adopt AI, but to fundamentally transform how businesses operate. Their ambition centered around three core pillars: building confidence in AI through robust frameworks and governance, creating exponential value by optimizing performance and experiences, and augmenting people potential through seamless human-AI collaboration. This vision laid the groundwork for a comprehensive AI strategy. As one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, EY needs to stay ahead of the curve with AI.

With technological change happening so quickly, what’s the best strategy for this seismic shift? EY deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 150,000 employees worldwide. This encouraged AI adoption for daily work in a familiar environment. Then, with Copilot Studio, employees learned to build their own agents to accelerate productivity. EY is laying the groundwork for the agentic frontier, where humans direct teams of agents that run entire business processes and workflows, checking in as needed, and reviewing work for quality and business value. Businesses everywhere stand at the edge of a seismic shift, where humans and machine intelligence collaborate to discover new possibilities.

Given its scale and influence in the professional services world, EY is reinvesting to empower its people so that they can help clients seize the moment and stay ahead of the curve. “The stakes are high right now for our clients and for EY, particularly around the area of measuring and managing the value of AI,” says Edwina Fitzmaurice, Global Innovation Market Activation Leader at EY. Deirdre Ryan, EY’s global finance transformation leader, details how her team is guiding both clients and EY’s own finance function through AI adoption. As finance leaders face pressure to modernize and deliver ROI on their spending on technology and consulting, EY’s finance transformation team is focused on putting emerging technologies to work not just for clients, but... The team, led by Deirdre Ryan, global finance transformation leader, is playing a dual role: Helping CFOs navigate AI adoption while also piloting those same tools internally across EY’s finance and consulting functions. In a recent interview inspired by her session at the Gartner Finance Executive Conference last month, Ryan explains how EY is using agentic AI to reshape FP&A workflows and why being “client zero” is...

She also discusses how CFOs can avoid repeating past mistakes from automation efforts, what it takes to lead a finance organization through transformation and how to do so with clarity, purpose and psychological safety. Global Finance Transformation Leader, EY This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. EY, one among the big four global professional services firms, looks to deliver measurable outcomes with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for its customers’ businesses. EY’s Global Delivery Services (GDS), the firm's global capability centre (GCC), is playing a key role in driving the AI agenda. In an interaction with Enterprise Story, Raj Sharma, Managing Partner, EY said, “Our teams have built a lot of enabling technologies where rather than selling AI, we are selling outcomes.”

As an example from the financial services industry, Sharma said earlier engagements with customers were just focused on tax and audit functions, but now, they provide an AI service that can spot money laundering... “We tell them (customers) to pay us only when you get the alert,” he remarked. Ajay Anand - Global Vice Chair, EY Global Delivery Services (left) and Raj Sharma - Global Managing Partner, Growth and Innovation, EY

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