[blackdog]

Actually, high level decision making in corporations is made by careful and thorough analysis of metrics. Costs of all form, labor, shipping and distribution, cost of sales, general and administrative overheads, cost of capital, etc.. .

All things much better suited to be accomplished by AI Algorithms, in real time, not six months behind.

[ClearCase_guy]

I won’t dispute that AI may be the best option in some cases at this point.

But I have worked at corporations (before AI was a trend) where the people at the top basically put little numbers in little boxes in little spreadsheets, and they ran the numbers and found out that shareholder value (nothing else mattered) would increase if more workers were laid off. Usually, the most senior, most experienced, most needed people were also the most highly compensated, and so (naturally) they were let go first.

If the only thing that matters is analysis of metrics, then the business runs a certain way.

However, if the human at the top really has deep personal knowledge of the business itself, then that business may run a very different way.