Last week, Accenture brought global industry analysts to Bangalore for an intense three  day session to assess whether its strategy is genuinely differentiated. For a company with the scale, breadth and depth of Accenture, I think this is a red herring. I went in with a different question: whether the world’s largest professional services firm is vulnerable to AI or adapting ahead of it. By the end of the week, it was clear that neither question really mattered. The real conversation was about what enterprises need to make AI work at scale – and why so few have it.     Of the 12,000 generative AI and agentic initiatives Accenture has run since 2023, only 13% have scaled. Forrester’s latest State of AI survey tells a similar story: just 15% of AI decision ‑ makers say AI is positively impacting their firm’s earnings.…