AI ROI and Business Value Insights
Research and practical guidance on AI payback, business cases, sensitivity analysis, projected versus realized value and scaling AI beyond pilots.
AI ROI
5 Common Mistakes in AI ROI Models
Why AI business cases often overstate value, miss operating costs, or fail finance review, and how to make the model more credible.
Business Case
What Makes an AI Business Case CFO-Ready?
A CFO-ready AI business case connects investment, measurable outcomes, assumptions, risk, timing, and accountability in one decision framework.
Enterprise AI
AI Pilot to Production: Proving the Value
A practical framework for deciding whether an AI pilot has created enough evidence to justify production investment and broader rollout.
SaaS Value
SaaS Deals Need a Buyer-Specific ROI Model
Buyer-specific ROI models help enterprise software teams connect product capabilities to measurable economics.
AI ROI
AI ROI Sensitivity Analysis: Does It Hold Up?
Use sensitivity analysis to test an AI business case against lower adoption, smaller benefits, higher costs and slower realization before capital is committed.
Value Realization
Projected vs. Realized AI ROI: Why They Diverge
A framework for comparing the value forecast in an AI business case with the value actually realized after deployment.
AI Economics
AI Project Payback Period: When Does a Business AI Investment Break Even?
Calculate the payback period for a business AI project using implementation cost, recurring expense, adoption, measurable benefits and cumulative cash flow.
From Damir
I Don't Call AI a Success Until Value Is Measured
My perspective on separating an impressive AI demonstration from measurable business value, adoption and accountable operating results.
Enterprise AI
Why Most AI Pilots Never Show Measurable ROI
A widely cited 2025 MIT study found most enterprise AI pilots show no measurable P&L impact — a sign of weak measurement, not that AI doesn't work.