AI produces, but producing is not productivity, and without being deliberate about viability, write-offs are more likely than pay-offs.
Even before AI, technology improved outcomes only when the rest of the operating model moved with it. AI just makes that urgent rather than neat.
Three years of AI cases in M&A, across the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. A claimed saving has to clear three questions before I would credit it in diligence, or back it in a value creation plan.
