At a Seoul technology summit in September 2026, OpenAI Korea's country lead offered a quiet but consequential warning: the companies failing at artificial intelligence are not failing because their models are weak, but because their models are isolated. As an 8.3-fold performance gap opens between AI leaders and the median enterprise, the lesson emerging from factory floors to legal departments is an old one dressed in new urgency — tools do not transform organizations; the redesign of work around those tools does.