A Better Model Doesn’t Fix a Broken Operating Model

Enterprises have no shortage of AI pilots; what they lack, argues Niraj Nagrani, Chief Data and AI Officer at Altimetrik, is an operating system to run them on. In this conversation with CIO&Leader, Nagrani makes the case that scaling AI isn’t a modeling problem at all: it’s an engineering, governance, and accountability problem that a stronger LLM can’t solve. Drawing on Altimetrik’s HFS Research study of 505 Global 2000 executives, in which 83% said they depend on partners to move fast and 80%