This is the version I now print and walk into AI strategy meetings with.
This is the version I now print and walk into AI strategy meetings with.
Last week, forty minutes into a diagnostic call, a CDO stopped me.
She told me her entire customer analytics pipeline depended on one Excel file maintained by one person.
This kind of happens on almost every call I have run this year.
The team always wants to start at the AI layer. I keep pulling the conversation down the stack, and we usually do not make it past Operational Reality.
Excel files, Slack threads, one person who knows how it works.
That is where AI in production fails, not at the model layer.
What is your one Excel file?
Oluoma Ilobah, FIMC John Wernfeldt strengthening the weak layers before building AI models is so key. It will only amplify chaos if the foundational pillars are weak.
John Wernfeldt Author Oluoma Ilobah, FIMC yeah, usually strengthening the layer needs someone to own it rather than another tooling project