Generative AI Adoption by Business Function

About This Dataset

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.
Analysis

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.

Source:  McKinsey & Company

Key Findings

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Marketing and Sales leads in Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) with 42 in 2024.
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Average Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) 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
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Top Value
42
Marketing and Sales
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · 2024
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Metrics
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Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%)
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Period
2024
Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source
McKinsey & Company
Coverage
6 entities · 2024 · 6 observations
Measure
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%)
Last updated
29 June 2026
Compiled by
The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
  • Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
  • Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.

Rankings & Full Data

6 records · Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · ranked by 2024

✓ 6 sourced
# Category 2024 Source
🥇 Marketing and Sales 42
🥈 Product and Service Development 28
🥉 IT 23
4 Service Operations 22
5 Supply Chain 9
6 Manufacturing 5

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

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