prove the payoff before you spend the budget

Leadership wants the business case by Friday. Nobody has the current-state number to measure the payoff against.

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Every project claims a payoff on the approval slide, and nobody goes back to see if it showed up.

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Last year’s business case used one method. This year’s uses a different one, so nothing compares.

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The AI business case is due Friday, and there’s no baseline to build it from.