The Transformation Tax
Why the true cost of enterprise AI programmes runs two to three times the approved budget — and the engagement model designed to eliminate the hidden tax rather than simply account for it.
Challenges
Enterprises systematically undercount AI programme costs by ignoring governance overhead, competitive window loss, shadow solution duplication, change attrition, and deferred product decisions. The result is a programme that appears on budget while consuming far greater organisational resources — with no framework to surface or address the gap.