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Generative AI Adoption by Business Function

This chart shows which business functions have the highest adoption of generative AI among companies, ranked by share of companies using GenAI in each area as of 2024.

About: Generative AI Adoption by Business Function

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This chart shows which business functions have the highest adoption of generative AI among companies, ranked by share of companies using GenAI in each area as of 2024.

AI Insight

Marketing and sales dominate generative AI adoption at 42% - more than double the overall average of 19% - reflecting the natural fit between GenAI's content generation capabilities and customer-facing workflows. Product and service development (28%), IT (23%), and service operations (22%) form a secondary cluster of adoption. In contrast, supply chain (9%) and manufacturing (5%) remain substantially behind, indicating that GenAI has yet to find widespread application in physical production and logistics contexts. This functional skew suggests that near-term GenAI value creation will remain concentrated in digital, creative, and customer-oriented domains before it penetrates more operationally complex areas.

Data source:  McKinsey & Company

Key Findings

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Marketing and Sales leads with 42 in 2024.
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Average value in 2024: 22  ·  median: 23.
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Gap in 2024: Marketing and Sales is 8.4× larger than Manufacturing.

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
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Data Points
6
6 categories  ·  1 year
Top Value
42
Marketing and Sales
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · 2024
Metrics
1
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%)
Period
2024
Single year snapshot

Category Rankings

Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · 2024
# Category 2024
🥇 Marketing and Sales 42
🥈 Product and Service Development 28
🥉 IT 23
4 Service Operations 22
5 Supply Chain 9
6 Manufacturing 5
Statistical Summary — Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · 2024
42
Maximum
5
Minimum
22
Average
23
Median

What This Data Shows

Auto-generated trend summaries per category
Marketing and Sales
Recorded 42 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.
Product and Service Development
Recorded 28 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.
IT
Recorded 23 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.
Service Operations
Recorded 22 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.
Supply Chain
Recorded 9 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.
Manufacturing
Recorded 5 Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024.

Full Data Table

6 records across 1 year
6 sourced
Category Metric 2024 Source
Marketing and Sales Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 42
Product and Service Development Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 28
IT Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 23
Service Operations Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 22
Supply Chain Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 9
Manufacturing Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 5

Data Sources & References

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