I really believe that AI agents are going to upend everything from organisation design, to strategy formulation and execution, to workflows, to how we interact with data, to how people get stuff done. It’s going to bring such fundamental change that we need to start thinking now about how we can take a more deliberate approach to designing for agentic AI, rather than just allowing it to happen.
So over the past weeks I’ve been researching and exploring the topic. I want to understand how this is likely to play out. And as someone that works with clients to manage change and transformation, to effectively navigate emerging technologies and possibilities, I think it’s essential that I have a point of view on this.
A month ago I started to write up some of my thinking around what an agentic organisation might look like. But as I’ve gone further into the topic it’s somewhat blown my mind. There is just so much to think about here.
As is my way, I started to collect together and write about some of the critical areas of change as a way to organise my thinking. And it became a presentation – a manifesto (of sorts) for how I think we should go about this. It begins with some context, and ways of thinking about significant technological-driven change, before defining agentic AI, considering how it will emerge, what it will mean for strategy and strategists, and then how we can design for a new type of organisation in a deliberate way.
You can view the presentation here (free to view), and I’ve embedded it below. I’d love to know what you think of it, and if you found it useful, do please share it.
Agentic-era.pptx by neilperkinI’ll be diving into some of the themes I touch on here over the next few weeks so watch this space.
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