The agreement on who may take which decisions, within which limits and with what accountability. An unclear mandate is the most common cause of slow decisions, and of decisions that keep being reopened.
The number of AI agents is growing fast, but Gartner expects over four in ten agent projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of rising costs and unclear value. Vendors, meanwhile, are sticking the agent label on existing products. The value goes to companies that manage agents as a single programme.
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Closures in European chemicals have risen sixfold since 2022, and the Netherlands accounts for a fifth of the capacity announced, more than twice its share of turnover. On an integrated cluster, one company's exit hits its neighbours directly. The Dutch government and Chemelot are therefore working with a cluster plan.
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The AZWA obliges municipalities and health insurers in 38 regions to agree a joint work agenda. The governance of these networks is not yet in place: RIVM finds no central governance in over 60 per cent of IZA regions, and Groningen found no structure able to grow with them in any of 142 initiatives.
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Organisations collect ever more data and make no faster decisions with it. KPMG finds 63 per cent of executives leaning more heavily on data, while 43 per cent say decisions come faster; BCG hears from 41 per cent of employees that AI actually increases the time a decision takes.
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Over six in ten Dutch teachers want a period of calm before the next round of innovation, more than in most other TALIS countries. ROA and the Inspectorate blame an accumulation of rules and temporary schemes, which leaves schools unable to implement new plans properly.
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Supervisors find AI in wide use across the financial sector, at over 90 per cent of ECB-supervised banks and 65 per cent of European insurers. Policies and controls lag behind; the ECB sees responsibility spread across IT, data teams, the business and control functions.
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