{"id":197176,"date":"2026-03-18T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:30:13","slug":"cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Is Betting Big on AI. The Operational Payoff Is Still Being Proven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theleafonline.com\/c\/lifestyle\/2026\/03\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/\">Cannabis Is Betting Big on AI. The Operational Payoff Is Still Being Proven<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theleafonline.com\/c\/lifestyle\/2026\/03\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/\">https:\/\/theleafonline.com\/c\/lifestyle\/2026\/03\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 19:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theleafonline.com\">theleafonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article discusses how cannabis industry operators can transform tech investments, particularly AI, into significant business performance measures.<\/li>\n<li>Key challenges include demonstrating measurable returns from AI investments, as data shows limited gains from most AI outlays.<\/li>\n<li>Mamatha Chamarthi&#8217;s approach focuses on operationalized AI that ties directly to achieving cost reductions, revenue increases, and risk reduction, rather than tech-for-the-sake-of-it.<\/li>\n<li>Chamarthi\u2019s four operational quadrants for AI strategy are: efficiency, process reimagination, product intelligence, and business model evolution.<\/li>\n<li>Her governance emphasis suggests boards view AI as critical as capital allocation for delivering measurable business impacts, emphasizing oversight and accountability.<\/li>\n<li>Chamarthi\u2019s pragmatic approach advocates integrating AI into business systems and leveraging data for operational improvements and sustainable growth.<\/li>\n<li>She stresses the necessity for AI to be outcome-driven and ethically managed for future-proofing enterprise AI initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>The article highlights a shift from tech-centric AI to a strategy focused on disciplined execution, measurable impact, and ethical governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis Is Betting Big on AI. The Operational Payoff Is Still Being Proven https:\/\/theleafonline.com\/c\/lifestyle\/2026\/03\/cannabis-is-betting-big-on-ai-the-operational-payoff-is-still-being-proven\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/theleafonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MC-Story-Art-SM-j.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197178,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197176\/revisions\/197178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}