AI ‘Tokenomics’ is a trap. CIOs should avoid it at all costs.

According to a quartet of Accenture intellectual heavyweights, what CIOs need now to account for and control AI costs is tokenomics, sweet tokenomics. The idea of linking AI spend to business outcomes may be a noble one, but “Tokenomics” only pretends to do so, unless you think tallying costs and measuring business outcomes are one and the same thing. But before we get to Tokenomics we need to set the stage. Start with Function Point Analysis (FPA), a venerable and mostly forgotten discipline, which should say something about its efficacy. The folly of cost metrics you can’t understand Back in