Your Budget Is Your Real AI Strategy: The Board's 5-Question Test

Your board approves an AI strategy. Your budget tells a different story. In this executive briefing, Craig Terblanche, Principal Advisor at ExoAdvisory, walks you through the Digital Delta diagnostic — five board-level questions that classify every rand of spend and show where the shift to AI stalls. You will learn: The stop-tomorrow test: traditional vs transformative spend Three perspectives: customer and product, organisation and operations, platform and enabling services Seven portfolio tiers, from transformative to legacy sludge Why intent without evidence drops one tier Six indicators to track from last year's actuals to this year's budget What your board receives: a heat map, an AI-era overlay, your King V governance posture and a 90-day action plan Three actions for your next board meeting: 1. Apply the stop-tomorrow test to your top ten budget lines. 2. Ask finance for the share of spend above the line, last year against this year. 3. Name one legacy sludge item to retire this quarter, with an owner and a date. Book your Digital Delta diagnostic: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/... Free download: Board AI Accountability Readiness Check https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nff7... About ExoGroup Africa: exponential transformation for impact at the intersection of AI, enterprise transformation and purposeful entrepreneurship. Craig is the author of The AI Advantage and AI-Powered Business. Contact: craig@exofutures.africa | exoadvisory.africa | exogroup.africa Subscribe for board-level briefings on AI governance, AI accountability and enterprise transformation. E&OE. For discussion purposes only. Not financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Figures and examples are illustrative. #AIgovernance #AIStrategy #BoardLeadership