
Shape AI investment and enterprise value
The CFO’s role is expanding—from overseeing financial performance to shaping how the enterprise funds, evaluates, and governs AI. Finance leaders must balance investment discipline with transformation while preparing their own teams for new ways of working.
Drawing on Slalom’s proprietary survey of 2,000 executives and observations from enterprise AI engagements, this report explores what that shift means for finance leaders—and how to prepare.
Inside the report:
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Five bold predictions for the CFO role and the decade ahead.
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The implications for AI investment governance, finance talent, continuous planning, and the CFO-CIO partnership.
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A practical framework for navigating transformation across people, innovation, vision, operations, and technology.

Part of Slalom’s Future of the CXO series.
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