India, Sept. 11 -- Indian businesses are beginning to encounter something similar with AI. The technology has become remarkably good at finding the signal, detecting patterns, forecasting demand, flagging anomalies and processing information faster than a team could manually. Yet much of enterprise investment remains focused on making existing systems work faster, rather than improving the quality of the decisions those processes support.

A recent Gartner survey of finance leaders found that 45% of CFOs said their AI investments lean towards productivity, while only 20% of finance AI projects lean towards improving decision quality. This gap often widens when organisations fall into the 'data perfection trap' and suffer from decision par...