Strategic Pillar

Leadership Alignment.

Creating shared direction, explicit decisions, and accountable executive ownership for consequential change.

Aligning the Executive Team on AI

Executive alignment requires shared choices about direction, priorities, ownership, tradeoffs, and evidence, not general agreement that AI matters.

Who Owns AI Decisions? Authority and Escalation

Give the accountable business owner authority over routine AI workflow decisions within documented risk and spending limits. Central leadership should own shared architecture, enterprise risk boundaries, and competing capital priorities. Escalate decisions that exceed those limits before a system takes consequential action. Delegation is inappropriate when the owner lacks the information, expertise, or authority to accept the consequence.

Resolving Executive Disagreement About AI

Resolve AI disagreement by making assumptions and tradeoffs explicit, then decide directly or run a bounded test that can produce relevant evidence.