The solution isn’t more pilots. It’s not better vendors. It’s not bigger budgets.
This means:
Killing your central AI lab and distributing its budget to frontline teams. Central planning is failing for enterprise AI.
Embracing the shadow AI economy instead of fighting it. Your employees have already figured out what works—listen to them.
Accepting that external partners will build better tools than you can. Your core competency isn’t AI development, and pretending otherwise is expensive delusion.
Restructuring authority so the people closest to the work control the automation of that work. This isn’t delegation—it’s revolution.
Measuring success by value created, not activity generated. Pilots aren’t progress. Deployments aren’t successful. Value is the only metric that matters.
Gennaro is the creator of FourWeekMBA, which reached about four million business people, comprising C-level executives, investors, analysts, product managers, and aspiring digital entrepreneurs in 2022 alone | He is also Director of Sales for a high-tech scaleup in the AI Industry | In 2012, Gennaro earned an International MBA with emphasis on Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.
