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85% of CFOs Say AI Is Central to Their Strategy. 92% Worry They Can't Pull It Off.
Every CFO has an AI strategy. Far fewer have the data foundation, infrastructure, or ROI clarity to execute on it. Based on a survey of 600 global finance leaders, The Strategic CFO Report maps the precise gap between AI ambition and operational reality, what's causing it, what it's costing, and what top-performing CFOs are doing differently.
Download the full findings with complimentary access to learn:
- Why 63% of CFOs think they have full spend visibility, but only 5% do
- What's driving AI strategy concern from 66% to 92% in a single year
- Why CFOs with instant data access expect AI ROI 3x faster
- Three barriers keeping 87% of organizations from deploying AI at scale
- How fragmented systems drain 26 hours monthly and how to fix it
Key Findings
are concerned about their ability to implement their AI strategy
can access all spend data instantly in a single system
say difficulty quantifying AI ROI is hindering further investment
“Most CFOs are trying to prove AI ROI after the fact because the foundation wasn’t ready when the investment was made. The ones getting ahead of this have stopped treating ROI as a reporting exercise and started treating it as a design decision, one that gets made when you choose the platform, not when the board asks the question.”
— Mike Agresta, Chief Financial Officer, Coupa





