
For years, executives were told that artificial intelligence would unlock unprecedented efficiency, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and transform entire industries. Billions have since poured into AI infrastructure, consulting, training, and cloud consumption. Yet despite the surge in enterprise AI spending, one uncomfortable truth keeps resurfacing: the ROI isn’t showing up.
Across industries, pilots stall. Teams struggle to measure results. CFOs question whether the cost of deploying and maintaining AI systems exceeds the business value they produce. What was once sold as an inevitable transformation is increasingly seen as a governance, integration, and expectation-management problem rather than a purely technological one.…

