Most AI programs are just expensive data cleaning exercises.
Without assigned owners and clear documentation, your AI team will spend 80 percent of their time on wrangling instead of building value.
Executives often fund AI expecting intelligence, but they are actually subsidizing a massive ongoing data janitorial service.
If your data lacks a product owner, your ROI will vanish in the plumbing.
Most companies think they are investing in intelligence.
They are actually paying for the effort of cleaning up a mess.
The intelligence you think you are buying is being consumed by the massive effort required to simply make the data usable.
Data is not an asset if no one is responsible for its quality.
I saw this clearly on every project we have undertaken as a firm.
The moment the implementation begins, the intelligence disappears into a black hole of data cleaning and uncoordinated dependencies.
Stop treating data as a byproduct of operations.
1. Assign business owners to specific datasets.
2. Treat data quality as a nonnegotiable product feature.
3. Measure the actual cost of unmanaged data.
How much of your AI budget is being spent on janitorial work?
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