The AI Delegation Trap and the Productivity J-Curve

AI
The Productivity J-Curve best explains AI’s productivity paradox. The investments across different categories beyond technology initially depress measurable output. Rather than making the necessary investments across these categories, CEOs of legacy corporations often fall into the Delegation Trap, treating AI as a tactical IT upgrade. This misallocation triggers the AI […]
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The Inadequacy of Enterprise AI Committees and Centers of Excellence

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General-Purpose Technologies, such as AI, must cause the enterprise to rethink and redesign its workflows, organizational structures, and business models. Most information technologies targeting the enterprise, e.g., business intelligence, refine and optimize existing processes rather than forcing their complete redesign. Failing to distinguish between a true General-Purpose Technology and a […]
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Three AI Factory Types

AI
As 2025 drew to a close, the narrative surrounding enterprise AI began to shift. We moved from 2025 being the “Year of Experimentation” to 2026 shaping as the “Year of Deployment.” Under such a mandate, enterprises must develop and deploy their AI applications scalably, efficiently, and economically. For the large […]
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  • 25 September 2025
    September 25, 2025
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Preparing the AI-First Enterprise Workforce for the Age of Agents

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As AI agents become more capable, how should the roles and responsibilities of the AI-first enterprise employees evolve? Which skills will matter at each level? How will technical and business teams collaborate to effectively leverage agents and agent-based systems? As the capabilities of agents advance, employees will move from executing […]
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Evolving the AI Agent Spectrum: From Software to Embodied AI

AI
In the piece Agents in the AI-First Company I introduced a five-level spectrum for understanding software agents. The piece generated a strong response and valuable comments, for both of which I’m incredibly grateful. Some readers questioned the original progression of the spectrum. They noted that developing agents that can collaborate […]
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Agents In the AI-First Company

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AI agents are an important component of the transformation to become an AI-first company. Corporations undertaking this transformation must understand where and how to incorporate agents and which agent types to utilize in the AI-centric processes they establish and the organizational structures they adopt. The article presents AI agent types, […]
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The Struggles Enterprises Face with Generative AI

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A few days ago I attended the strategy meeting of a portfolio company. Like all of our Synapse Partners portfolio companies, this one provides AI solutions to enterprise customers. Their initial success is in the medical devices industry. While reviewing the company’s sales pipeline and the progress of delivering the […]
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Crossing the Enterprise Generative AI Chasm

AI
AI solution providers and infrastructure providers committed to spend $1T on AI-related capex over the next few years, in anticipation of high demand for and heavy use of generative AI enterprise solutions. A few years ago, the automotive industry committed similar scale investments toward the development and deployment of battery […]
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Where Are We With Enterprise Generative AI?

AI
Despite the noise from high-tech corporations, startups, venture investors, and analysts, we are still in a very early phase of generative AI. As a result, it is hard to assume, let alone declare, that generative AI will transform every business process driving operational efficiencies, create new revenue streams, result in […]
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