A CIO's Journey Building Intelligence Inside a Real Manufacturing Enterprise : AI Doesn't Fail. Systems Do.
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798242083042
- ISBN-10: 9798242083042
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: January 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.16 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 66
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