I spent 20 years running technology at IBM and Kyndryl leading 200+ engineers, governance boards, phased rollouts, the whole apparatus. That same enterprise playbook is quietly strangling AI projects right now. Not because the discipline…
Six months into the project, a senior stakeholder asked the question that kills more AI initiatives than anything else: “Can’t we just skip ahead to the good stuff?” Here’s what happened when this manufacturing client…
After 20 years leading enterprise technology at IBM and Kyndryl, I’ve seen the same pattern destroy AI initiatives at Fortune 100 companies and small businesses alike. The AI model works. The infrastructure underneath it doesn’t.…
Most AI projects don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because of what the technology is running on. Duplicate records, disconnected systems, inconsistent data that means different things to different people. AI doesn’t fix…
Agentic AI doesn’t just answer questions it books meetings, sends emails, updates records, and restarts failed systems at 3am without waiting for a human. It’s happening right now, and most organizations are completely unprepared for…
A manufacturing CEO spent $2.4 million on an AI initiative that completely failed. Six months of work, nothing worked, back to manual processes. The problem? They skipped the infrastructure assessment everyone said was “boring.” This…