The pattern
Enterprise AI deliveries do not fail because the model was wrong. They fail because something around the model gave way: a pipeline, a permission, a workflow assumption, a missing owner.
The usual suspects
- A data product that worked in dev and not in prod.
- An integration with a workflow tool that no one owned end-to-end.
- A governance question that surfaced after go-live.
The fix
Diagnose the failure as a system problem, not a model problem. Then fix the system.