Rajeev Nanda | AI Strategist, Author & Technology Leader

6 Published books | 30+ years in Technology Leadership | 100+ articles & essays on AI Strategy, Leadership, and Transformation

Areas of Focus

Artificial Intelligence

AI strategy, transformation, adoption, governance, agents and the future of work

Digital Transformation

Frameworks and insights for leading technology-enabled business transformation

Leadership & Innovation

Practical perspectives on leadership, innovation, and navigating disruption


Featured AI Insights

  • The Two Clocks I Can’t Delete

    I believe that the two clock phenomenon is common across all first-generation immigrants, like myself. For me, one says Santa Clara (US), the country I migrated to, and the other says New Delhi (India), the country I migrated from. For years I told myself this was practical, but somewhere along the way I noticed something… Continue

  • AI’s Energy Paradox: Can AI Solve the Grid Crisis It Created?

    The rapid surge in AI infrastructure’s power demand has created a historic collision between big tech and the U.S. power grid. This could become the watershed moment for American energy policy and grid stability. The combination of staggering growth, abrupt load changes due to AI workloads, and infrastructure bottlenecks are leading to higher bills for… Continue

  • The weight they chose to carry

    Sometimes, there are moments that never make the news. No headlines. No hashtags. No awards. Just ordinary people doing ordinary things that quietly tell you a society is changing. During my recent visit to India, I went to the mall to clock my steps and escape the peak-summer heat. As my tracker counted my steps,… Continue

  • The AI ROI Trap

    In a recent discussion with a CTO, I asked about the metrics they used for measuring the impact of AI on their business. He shared a slide that had been presented to the executive team as a bragging right that boldly claimed 87% Adoption of the company’s new AI co-pilot. When I pressed him with… Continue

  • Is SaaS dead? Not yet – But the Build-vs-Buy question CxOs are asking as already obsolete

    Back in the mid-1990s, I was part of a small team at Intel that worked on the project called WIINGS that managed indirect inventory and was critical to their factory stores. We were told that the ERP rollout will replace our software within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while… Continue

  • What beyond the Co-Pilot? The Wire-Hanger test most leadership teams fail

    In one of our annual leadership conferences at Intel, Diane Bryant, our then CIO, conducted a break-out session on out-of-the-box / lateral thinking. We were ~20 people in her session when she asked us all to write down the maximum number of use cases for a metal-wire hanger, you know the flimsy ones that you… Continue


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Other writings

Reflections and musings on life and other non-AI topics

  • The Two Clocks I Can’t Delete

    I believe that the two clock phenomenon is common across all first-generation immigrants, like myself. For me, one says Santa Clara (US), the country I migrated to, and the other says New Delhi (India), the country I migrated from. For years I told myself this was practical, but somewhere along the way I noticed something… Continue

  • The weight they chose to carry

    Sometimes, there are moments that never make the news. No headlines. No hashtags. No awards. Just ordinary people doing ordinary things that quietly tell you a society is changing. During my recent visit to India, I went to the mall to clock my steps and escape the peak-summer heat. As my tracker counted my steps,… Continue

  • Do not rush to judge…

    I often say, “Do not rush to judge, for life has not tested you yet”. During a recent discussion, a friend criticized someone’s character and I silently to repeated this to myself as a reminder. It took me back to the height of the #MeToo movement, when someone we knew was fired for having an… Continue


Meet Rajeev

I’m an AI strategist, author, and technology leader passionate about helping individuals and organizations navigate the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. Open for consulting, advisory, and fractional opportunities.