The Transformation Edge: Why AI is forcing the CFO and CHRO to rewrite the enterprise together

There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Finance managed capital. Human resources managed people. Information technology managed systems. Operations managed workflows. AI is blowing that model apart, creating a new discipline of “workforce economics,” where human talent, digital labor, technology investment and productivity increasingly have to be managed as one interconnected system. The enterprise is becoming a mix of people, agents, data, models and workflows, all consuming capital and all contributing to output. That means the old boundaries between finance and human capital are disappearing fast. And one of the most important new partnerships in the C-suite is emerging between the chief financial officer and chief human resources officer. This is bigger than collaboration. It’s becoming a new operating model. In the latest installment of IBM’s “Transformation Edge: A C-Suite Reinvention Series,” I talked with Jim Kavanaugh (pictured, left), senior vice president and chief financial officer of…