CFO: You Funded AI On Top Of Broken Data

Send us Fan MailPrivate Advisory for Boards and CFOs: https://www.jhstrategicit.com/AI deployments built on un-normalized data produce confident answers that cannot be defended to the source. The board sees the number. The controller sees the gap.The connectors reach SharePoint, Salesforce, and HANA. They do not reach the controller's spreadsheet. The truth lives in the spreadsheet. Every finance department runs shadow Excel systems that the ERP was never built to absorb, and no AI deployment can read what the connector cannot see.When the AI answer cannot be defended back to the source, the executive who approved the deployment owns the gap. Authority migrates to whoever can defend the number. That is not the AI, and it is not the vendor. It is the executive who signed the capital request.Capital Readiness is the test. Defend the answer back to the source.This channel covers board-level technology governance and the decisions executives make when IT spend stops being defensible. Subscribe for briefings designed for leaders who approve and defend enterprise technology investment.