Paul Barnhurst argues CFOs should lead AI adoption because they already own the financial accuracy investors see. His forthcoming book offers frameworks for AI implementation, comparing it to past tech rollouts like ERP systems and emphasizing the need for solid data foundations.
We're the ones who look foolish. You can't go out to investors if your numbers aren't aligned. So there's a certain ownership you already have to have. Your argument is because of that, because of efficiency, you also kind of need to lead the adoption. So how does the CFO do that? Lay out a little bit of how you talk about that in the book or how you think about it.
Yeah, this is AI time, so everything is accelerated absurdly. So I finished writing this back in January, I guess. And so now here we are heading into September. The book's supposed to be out at the end of the month. So I started writing it last summer and putting together these frameworks. What at the time they were taken from other technology, ERP implementations, for example, were part of it, but a lot around setting up data systems and really setting up everything we had to do for data is the same thing we do for AI with some different wrinkles.
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