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Strategy Brief

A weekly, eight-minute briefing on what actually works in enterprise AI. Research, the numbers that matter, and takeaways for Monday morning.

For the AI power user making decisions and putting AI to work in their team.

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Latest full episode · 01 · 8 min 02 sec

The Governance Flip

BCG's widening AI value gap, McKinsey's productivity paradox, and the management challenge of agents in production. What changes when the bottleneck becomes the way a business governs and uses AI?

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  1. The governance flip
  2. BCG: leaders pull away
  3. McKinsey: the productivity paradox
  4. Agents in production: incident data
  5. Reality check and the market
  6. Three takeaways

Episode companion

The gap is organisational.

BCG · Applied AI Index 2026

  • Future-built: 7.5%
  • Scaling AI; beginning to create value: 41%
  • Other maturity groups (remainder): 51.5%

Company maturity groups. Remainder calculated: 100 − 7.5 − 41. Read the source ↗

The research points toward an operating challenge: adopting a tool is easier than changing how work gets done. Our companion analysis separates the evidence from the implications.

  1. Build governance into the work. Give an agent clear limits and an accountable owner.
  2. Track the business outcome. Connect the experiment to a KPI or a financial result.
  3. Redesign the workflow. Improve the process around the tool, then measure the result.

Takeaways are editorial interpretation, not survey findings.

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Trailer · 31 sec

Welcome to The AI Strategy Brief

Meet Akshay & Diu and the idea behind the weekly briefing: practical AI perspective you can bring into your week.

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What to expect

01 / Research

Start with the evidence.

02 / Perspective

Understand what it means.

03 / Action

Take an idea into Monday.

This trailer introduces the show. The research analysis starts with the full episode above.