---
id: "action-sunset-redundant-efforts"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Practical Guidance for Leaders"]
tags: ["portfolio-management", "roi"]
related: ["concept-performance-drive", "entity-johnson-and-johnson"]
action: "Audit AI pilots and shut down redundant or low-impact efforts."
outcome: "Concentrated resources on scaling high-impact use cases that generate real business value."
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
source_title: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-foci-60-successful-ai-pilots"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
---
# Sunset low-impact AI initiatives

## Action: Sunset low-impact AI initiatives

**Action:** Audit AI pilots and shut down redundant or low-impact efforts.

Stop spreading resources thin across hundreds of pilots. **Audit existing AI experiments, shut down redundant or low-impact efforts, and focus resources strictly on scaling the highest-impact use cases.**

**Expected outcome:** Concentrated resources on scaling high-impact use cases that generate real business value.

### Grounding
This is [[concept-performance-drive]] in practice, exemplified by [[entity-johnson-and-johnson]] (nearly 900 pilots → consolidation onto high-impact use cases with governance moved closer to business units).


## Related across articles
- [[concept-narrow-deep-use-cases]]
- [[concept-pilot-theater]]