Posts Tagged ‘CIOs and IT leaders’
For technology leaders: AI and software purchases, and whether they delivered after go-live.
In the book: Chapter 3: Value Drift (2) · Chapter 5: Advisory Is Not Enough (1) · Chapter 6: Tech Bloat as Governance Failure (1) · Chapter 7: Value Is Not Promised; It Is Proven (6) · Chapter 8: The Buyer Lifecycle Is Progressive Governance (1) · Chapter 9: The Value Control Loop (4) · Chapter 10: The Buyer Governance Pyramid (1) · Chapter 12: Compounded Value (2) · Chapter 13: The AI Amplifier (1) · Chapter 14: Who Controls Value Engagement? (3) · Chapter 15: The Value Lattice System (1) · Chapter 17: VIGOR: Governance and Realization (2) · Chapter 19: Preemptive Value Architecture (2) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (3) · Chapter 21: Decision Artifacts That Govern Outcomes (2) · Chapter 22: Embedding Buyer Governance (2)
The New AI Economics Standard Measures Labor Replaced
A standards body for AI economics now exists. Its opening measure of value is the share of work done without a person, which prices substitution and never asks whether the promised outcome arrived.
Read MoreEvery Executive Claims to Sign Off on AI Purchases
August survey data shows every executive seat naming itself the signer of AI purchases, while unowned decisions double one level down. No assignment exercise settles contradictory claims. A buyer’s record does.
Read MoreWhen AI Agents Buy for You, the Seller’s Agent Defines Your Needs
Agent-to-agent commerce is being wired with a machine-readable model of the buyer’s value, written entirely on the seller’s side of the table. The buyer’s counterpart artifact does not exist yet.
Read MoreHow a Purchase Stops Paying Off Without Anything Breaking
Organizations are built to detect failure. Value rarely fails. It drifts, through three forces that each look reasonable at the moment they operate and leave the record looking clean.
Read MoreWhat an AI Certification Does and Doesn’t Tell a Buyer
Accredited AI certification has arrived in the enterprise evaluation. It attests that a management system exists, not that the value it governs was ever delivered.
Read MoreSet the AI Value Test Before the Budget Is Spent
Eighty-four percent of finance organizations have adopted AI or plan to. Seven percent report high impact. The market’s answer arrives after the spend. A standard binds the claim before it.
Read MoreOverseeing What AI Produces Is Already a Legal Duty
The obligation to oversee what the machine produces is already law. The only open question is whether it is discharged by a standard or left to whoever is willing to hold the…
Read MoreEU AI Act Delays Don’t Change Who Must Check AI Value
What the EU’s deferral and Bain’s reinvestment data say, together, about who actually governs value, and why capital cannot wait for either of them to settle the question.
Read MoreWhen One Person Tracks Purchase Results, the Record Leaves Too
When judgment is concentrated at a named point, value inherits that point’s fragility. A standard governs without one, and it keeps governing after the named person has moved on.
Read MoreWhy Offices Set Up to Track Purchase Results Keep Getting Cut
The industry’s answer to unrealized value is a new office. An office can be defunded. A standard cannot. The remedy arriving as furniture is a category error.
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