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• Value Attribution Crisis Concept

  The difficulty of measuring AI value that emerges through compound effects defying simple attribution, causing project-based evaluation to systematically undervalue transformation while overvaluing incrementalism.

  First introduced in: AI's Interconnected Challenge: Diagnosing the Six Concerns of the Board

• Value chain visualisation

  A mapping showing how a specific AI capability flows through operational impact and strategic outcome to financial value, giving boards the cause-and-effect detail behind each Well-Advised pillar.

  Related: Rethinking Business Cases in the Age of AI: Building Your AI Business Case

  See also:Well-Advised

• Value-investment profile

  The relationship between the investment an AI initiative requires and the value it returns; different initiatives have different profiles, informing portfolio decisions rather than uniform criteria.

  Related: A Complete AI Adoption Framework: AISA, Five Pillars, and Well-Advised

• Vector database

  A database that stores embeddings and finds items by semantic similarity; a core component of retrieval-augmented AI systems.

  Related: Agentic AI: Strip Away the Hype and Understand the Real Strategic Choice

  See also:Retrieval

• Velocity Mismatch Concept

  The gap between AI’s rapid development pace and traditional quarterly board governance cycles, where the capability justifying a business case in January may be obsolete by June.

  First introduced in: AI's Interconnected Challenge: Diagnosing the Six Concerns of the Board

  Related: From AI Pilots and Projects to AI Strategy: Avoiding the Business Case Trap

  See also:Multi-Speed Collision

• Verification capability

  The subject-matter expertise needed to check AI outputs at the volume generated; developed by doing the work oneself over years, not by using AI tools.

  Related: The Accountability Gap: When AI Delegation Meets Human Responsibility

  See also:Verification Premiumexpertise pipelineAccountability Gap

• Verification Premium Asset

  The differential value commanded by workers who can exercise genuine judgement and verify AI outputs, as distinct from those who merely process what AI produces; it takes on a new dimension when the most capable workers also own the most capable tools.

  See also:vibe codingVerification capability

• vibe coding

  Building production applications largely from AI-generated code without corresponding engineering expertise, producing software that works but is accumulated rather than architected, accruing technical debt that surfaces when the system scales.

  Related: The Verification Premium: What Classical Training Reveals About AI Coding Costs

  See also:Technical debt

• Viral marketing

  A marketing approach where content such as a video, image, email or game is shared organically between internet users, spreading rapidly like a virus; once published its momentum is driven by the public rather than the brand.

  Related: Pass it on...the wonderful world of Viral Marketing

• Virtual power plant

  Aggregated distributed energy resources, household batteries, EV chargers, solar, and large behind-the-meter generation, coordinated as a single dispatchable grid resource.

  Related: A New Grid Actor: AI Infrastructure Is Becoming Energy Infrastructure

  See also:Behind-the-meter generation

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