Most AI initiatives don’t fail because of technology. They fail because the system around them isn’t ready.

In this episode of Digital Storm Weekly, we sat down with Siri Swahari, AI Leader at CGI - working where enterprise AI meets real-world constraints: legacy systems, governance, and high-stakes decisions.

This is not experimentation. This is AI operating inside complex, regulated environments.

A few powerful takeaways from Siri:

• AI success is not a model problem - it is a systems problem • Most pilots fail because ownership, governance, and data are unclear • Executives can no longer lead AI from the sidelines - they must be “player-coaches” • The biggest bottleneck is not technology, it is organizational alignment • Scaling AI requires breaking silos, not building better models • If you cannot defi ...