Before approving the next AI budget, check the network

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AI has rapidly moved from experimentation to a boardroom priority. But before approving the next AI budget, UK business leaders should ask a critical question: can their network support AI at scale once it moves beyond the pilot stage?

Recent UK research found that 55% of organizations will prioritize AI or ML investment over the next 12 months, while nearly one in six admit they are investing aggressively with little evaluation because they fear being left behind.

This pressure is understandable, but this is where the ROI debate becomes too narrow.

CIO, Expereo.

The value of AI will not always appear neatly soon after deployment. Some gains come through automation and productivity, while others emerge through long-term capability building: greater agility, better resilience, faster decision-making and new ways of working.

The danger is boards fund AI as a transformation, then judge it like a short-term software project. In the...

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