McKinsey’s “Agents for growth: Turning AI promise into impact” stresses that agentic AI can be a major growth engine—potentially boosting productivity by 3–5% annually and lifting growth by 10% or more—but only when organizations move beyond isolated tools to end-to-end transformation. Leaders unlock value by embedding AI agents into workflows across functions (marketing, sales, service), redesigning processes, and fostering tight human-AI collaboration rather than treating AI as a bolt-on technology. Real impact requires new operating models with cross-functional teams, strong data governance, and performance tracking for agent outcomes, not just experimentation. Early adopters tailor AI to strategic growth challenges, not generic use cases, enabling agents to automate decisions, personal

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