A CIO's Journey Building Intelligence Inside a Real Manufacturing Enterprise (Paperback)

Paperback. Most AI initiatives fail.Not because the technology is immature-but because the systems beneath it were never designed for intelligence.In A CIO's Journey Building Intelligence Inside a Real Manufacturing Enterprise, Chris Richner offers a rare, practitioner's account of what actually happens when artificial intelligence collides with real enterprise systems.This is not a book about algorithms, tools, or vendor platforms. It is about the uncomfortable truths AI exposes: fragmented systems, broken feedback loops, ambiguous ownership, and decades of deferred decisions quietly embedded in everyday operations.Drawing from lived experience inside a manufacturing organization, Richner shows why intelligence cannot be bolted on, why dashboards often deceive, and why AI acts less like a breakthrough technology and more like a truth serum.Written for CIOs, COOs, executives, architects, and operators responsible for real outcomes, this book reframes AI as a leadership and systems problem-not a tooling problem.If you are looking for quick wins or technical tutorials, this is not that book.If you are trying to understand why AI keeps failing-and what must change for it to work-this one is. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…