Customer satisfaction on the objective function is the ultimate arbiter of any disagreement. It’s not about what party A or party B thinks. It’s about what the customer thinks.

The Objective Way Forward For industrial organizations that are serious about AI value, objective functions can provide the critical link between technical capabilities and business outcomes.

Although it is unreasonable to expect two methods for assessing the same construct to be perfectly correlated, the observed correlations between objective and perceived cognitive function have tended ...

Michael C. Jensen, Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 235-256 ...