Fix your foundation before AI.
13 Aug 2026 · 1 min
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CFOs face pressure to adopt AI, but most organizations have broken data foundations and architecture that make AI impossible to implement effectively. Fix the basics first.
CFOs face pressure to adopt AI, but most organizations have broken data foundations and architecture that make AI impossible to implement effectively. Fix the basics first.
Pressure to deliver AI has made that gap really impossible for CFOs to now ignore, because AI will fundamentally and should be an enabler and really critical to their finance operations. But I think that gap is the data problem, which is then also becoming really visible at the board level. They're under so much pressure from their boards and audit committees to make sure that they're utilising AI, utilising the right technologies from AI, and then also proving and demonstrating the benefits. But the challenge that they all have as CFOs, controllers of a division, is actually they've got to fit the architecture first. They've got to fix the data problem first before they're able to use AI technologies in an effective way.
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