Framework
Board Questions Before Funding an AI Initiative
Questions boards should ask before funding AI: value case, ownership, data rights, risk, governance, adoption, cost discipline, and operating readiness.
Funding AI requires more than a use-case list
Before approving an AI initiative, boards should know how the program creates value, who owns outcomes, what risks are controlled, and how adoption will be measured.
- • What business outcome changes if this AI initiative succeeds?
- • What data, systems, and permissions will the AI capability need?
- • Who owns errors, exceptions, escalation, and monitoring?
- • What cost controls prevent pilots from becoming uncontrolled spend?
- • What will be stopped, redesigned, or simplified if AI is adopted?
Decision discipline
The strongest AI initiatives have a clear owner, a narrow first operating outcome, a governance model, and a path to scale only after controls and adoption are proven.
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