Return on investment
Also known as: ROI
What is return on investment?
Return on investment for AI automation is the net benefit — labour hours recovered, revenue gained, error cost avoided — divided by total cost of ownership, including build, licences, maintenance and change management.
Most AI business cases fail because they count the build cost once and ignore ongoing maintenance, model spend and the organisational cost of changing how people work.
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