Tokenomics - CFOs have a new challenge for CIOs: make AI spend financially legible! Accenture data suggests new disciplines needed

Four in five dollars of AI token spend lack a quantified link to business outcomes. Or in other words, less than one dollar in every five can be shown to have a verifiable financial outcome.

For CIOs faced with demand from the C-suite to get with the AI program, that creates a twin dilemma - they can’t predict consumption, resulting in a token bill for the CFO to pay that they can’t forecast, and they can’t demonstrate what that spend creates in terms of value.

That’s the top line conclusion from new research from Accenture - The CIO’s Guide to AI Tokenomics- which polled 750 senior global executives across 17 countries. The enterprises in the survey spent about $2.5 billion on AI tokens last year in total, but the findings suggest that this could climb as high as $3.6 billion over the next two years, with respondents predicting token...

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