Driving ROI in your AI initiatives

As AI spending accelerates, the article argues that CIOs must shift from hype-driven deployment to disciplined ROI management, because many enterprises are missing AI budgets while only a small minority are seeing material EBIT gains. The strategic takeaway for IT organizations is to govern AI as a portfolio of business cases: tie spend to approved use cases, define kill criteria, measure true value capture, and manage costs at the workflow and token level rather than on a simple per-user basis.