Tag: AI Agents
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The Intelligence Paradox
Most enterprises have more intelligence embedded in their operations than ever before. They have better forecasts, faster analytics, more automation, and increasingly autonomous systems. Decisions are informed by models that are more accurate, more adaptive, and more responsive than anything that came before. Yet many organizations report that operating the business feels harder, not easier.…
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Beyond the ‘AI-Centric Imperative’: The Orchestration-Native Enterprise
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 8 / 8 If you’ve stayed with this series, you’ve traveled a fair distance: Let’s end by zooming out. There’s a growing consensus – from McKinsey and others – that the next era of software will be AI-centric: agents, copilots, and embedded intelligence reshaping products and workflows. That’s true,…
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Proof Under Pressure: How Orchestration Handles Real-World Disruption
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 7 / 8 It’s one thing to talk about architecture, metrics, and roadmaps in calm conditions. It’s another thing to ask a harder, more honest question: What happens when the world really goes sideways? That’s the real test of any ‘AI-centric’ or ‘orchestration-native’ vision. In this article, we’ll…
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What Changes When You Become Orchestration-Native
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 6 / 8 Up to this point, we’ve stayed mostly in the world of architecture, economics, and metrics: But technology is only half the story. The real test of an orchestration-native enterprise is what it does to the day-to-day reality of work: This article is about that human side:…
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Adoption Without Disruption: A Practical Path to Orchestration
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 5 / 8 By now, we’ve painted a pretty ambitious picture: If you’re an executive or transformation leader, you might be nodding along – and still thinking: “This all sounds great. But how do we actually get there without a giant, risky transformation project?” That concern is rational.…
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From Dashboards to Decisions: New Metrics for an Orchestrated Enterprise
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 4 / 8 If you’ve been following this series, we’ve made three moves so far: That naturally raises a harder question: If we change how decisions are made, how should we measure whether the system is actually getting better? Most enterprises are still instrumented for an older era…
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The Economics of Intelligence: How to Stop AI from Becoming a Cost Spike
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 3 / 8 In the first two articles, we made a simple argument: That all sounds promising. But if you’re a CFO, COO, or P&L owner, there’s another question sitting underneath all of this: Will this actually make us more efficient – or just more expensive? Recent analysis…
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What an Orchestration-Native System Actually Looks Like (in Plain Language)
← From AI-Centric to Orchestration-Native | PART 2 / 8 In the first article, we argued that “AI-centric” is only a half-step. Adding copilots and assistants into individual tools is helpful, but it doesn’t solve the hardest problem large enterprises face: coordination. Sales, supply, logistics, finance, and operations all get “smarter” – but who keeps them…
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McKinsey: The agentic organization – the next paradigm
AI is bringing the largest organizational paradigm shift since the industrial and digital revolutions. This new paradigm unites humans and AI agents—both virtual and physical—to work side by side at scale at near-zero marginal cost. We call it the agentic organization. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-agentic-organization-contours-of-the-next-paradigm-for-the-ai-era
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i5: AI is Not the Product
INDUSTRY 5’s system-level approach to decision-making, simulation, and coordination CONTENTS Overview As generative AI continues to reshape expectations across enterprise technology, systems like INDUSTRY 5 (i5) offer a valuable counterpoint – one that reveals how real-time decision-making, simulation, and coordination must be rooted in architectural design, not just surface-level innovation. While many AI-enabled tools emphasize…