IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Organization in North America, 2026

"IDC's 2026 MaturityScape Benchmark: AI-Fueled Organization 2.0 confirms that North American organizations lead in AI maturity. Yet a confidence-capability gap persists: Many organizations that see themselves as AI leaders are running well ahead of what they have actually built. Closing that gap is an operating-model and governance challenge, not a technology one," says Giulia Carosella, Senior Research Manager, WW AI-Fueled Business Strategies at IDC.

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Executive summary

Analysis of AI-Fueled Organization Maturity Benchmark data

• Stages of the AI-fueled organization maturity framework
• Dimensions of the AI-fueled organization maturity framework
  • Survey findings: Maturity distribution across dimensions
  • Survey findings: Differences between the US and Canada
• Evaluating AI-fueled organization maturity: Survivors and Thrivers
  • Survey findings: Comparison of Survivors and Thrivers

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• Appendix
• Methodology
• Survey respondent segmentation