Turning Infrastructure from Bottleneck to Business Enabler for AI - With Juan Orlandini of Insight
From AI in Financial Services Podcast by Daniel Faggella
April 20, 2026 · 27 min
About this episode
Juan Orlandini discusses how to transform AI infrastructure from a bottleneck to a business enabler by establishing a solid business case before investment.
AI infrastructure projects are failing not because the technology underdelivers, but because organizations commit capital before establishing the business case. In this episode, Juan Orlandini, CTO at Insight, examines why enterprise AI programs stall and outlines how leaders can apply decades of established IT investment discipline to evaluate, validate, and scale AI initiatives with measurable outcomes in mind. The conversation covers organizational change management across employee adoption segments, the application of FinOps principles to AI infrastructure spending, and a minimum viable proof of concept approach for validating AI investments before scaling. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at http://go.emerj.com/partner.
People in this episode
Host: Daniel Faggella
Guest: Juan Orlandini
Topics covered
- AI infrastructure
- business case
- enterprise AI
- organizational change management
- FinOps principles
- proof of concept
Keywords
- AI infrastructure
- business case
- enterprise AI
- organizational change
- FinOps
- proof of concept
- investment validation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Insight, Emerj, Emerj Media
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