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Digital & AI Maturity Index in Consumer Goods

The consumer goods sector leads the cross-industry baseline with a score of 3.04. While the industry holds significant levers for value in pricing and supply chain, success depends on moving from isolated innovation pilots to full operational execution.

To win in 2026, organizations must overcome data and resource constraints by prioritizing high-impact value streams and industrializing AI to drive faster, more accurate decision-making.

This report outlines the sector’s maturity, leading strategies, and actions to accelerate transformation.

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Digital & AI Maturity Report 2026: Consumer Goods Focus, February 2026
Consumer goods DAIMI scores 2020–2025: the average rising from 2.69 to 3.04, leaders from 3.10 to 3.78 and laggards from 1.75 to 2.12, over 3 to 106 assessments a year
Figure 1: Digital & AI Maturity Index (DAIMI) Study Results: Consumer Goods Industry Score, Averages, Leaders, and Laggards

DAIMI Findings

Consumer Goods performance reveals a sector with steady progress but uneven depth, where a gap is widening between ambition and enterprise-scale execution.

  • Core Strengths

    Maturity is highest in operationally structured, measurable areas like supply chain execution, manufacturing efficiency, and core commercial routines.

  • The Scaling Gap

    Momentum is often hindered by fragmented data and disconnected systems, leading to “local wins” that fail to compound into enterprise-wide value.

  • Industrializing AI

    While many are stuck at the dashboard stage, advanced players are building repeatable AI engines for demand sensing, inventory optimization, and pricing effectiveness.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Digital & AI Maturity in Consumer Goods

To lead in 2026, consumer goods executives must prioritize a small set of high-value streams and transition from intuition-driven to data-driven decision routines. Success depends on strengthening data foundations and operationalizing AI in ways that directly improve planning accuracy and speed up decision-making across the value chain.

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The DAIMI Methodology

DAIMI (Digital and AI Maturity Index) is Digitopia’s framework for assessing how effectively organizations build capability and value in the digital and AI era. It measures maturity across six dimensions (Customer, Operations, Innovation, People, Governance, and Technology) to capture both business outcomes and the foundational capabilities required to deliver them consistently.

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The DAIMI wheel: People, Customer, Operations, Innovation, Governance and Technology around the Digital & AI Maturity Index
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The Global Perspective

The Consumer Goods Focus Report is part of a larger, global study on the state of transformation. Based on six years of research, 1,500+ assessments, and insights from 20+ countries and 10+ industries, the full report offers a truly global perspective.

While AI adoption is accelerating, organizational capability is not. The “Digital & AI Maturity Report 2026” quantifies this gap and provides the strategic blueprint required to close it.

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