{"id":189,"date":"2026-05-12T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.aalto.fi\/operations-leadership\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=189"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:28:43","slug":"episode-38-field-notes-ai-roi-reckoning-why-most-ai-deployments-still-arent-hitting-the-p-l","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcast.aalto.fi\/operations-leadership\/podcast\/episode-38-field-notes-ai-roi-reckoning-why-most-ai-deployments-still-arent-hitting-the-p-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode: 38: Field Notes &#8211; AI ROI Reckoning: Why Most AI Deployments Still Aren&#8217;t Hitting the P\/L"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, we cut through the AI hype to ask the question most vendors don&#8217;t want answered: why are 80% of supply chain AI deployments still invisible on the P&amp;L? 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