Helping Leaders Navigate the AI Revolution
Practical insights on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, leadership, and the future of work
6 Published books | 30+ years in Technology Leadership | 100+ articles & essays on AI Strategy, Leadership, and Transformation
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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
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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
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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
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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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Vibe Coding will 10x your best engineers – and your worst ones too
In case you have not yet caught on to the latest hype around AI, let me introduce you to the concept of vibe coding. It is popularized by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher, whose credentials are impressive and therefore his tweet hit more than 4 million views. I show the snapshot of the actual tweet… Continue
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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
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AI Agents are the new shiny toy – Here’s where to actually start
AI agents are the new shiny toy, and it feels a lot like the LLM hype from two years ago. Plenty of ‘experts’ are now touting agents as the endgame of AI, the same way they once touted LLMs as the dawn of sentient machines. I recently read an article claiming a wave of unicorn… Continue
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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
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theLie Llama
“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” said Lao Tzu. It took me almost a decade from the time I had the idea of ‘theLie Llama’ and it took my co-host, Gunjan, and I about six months of deliberations to take the first step. Then it took us about four months… Continue
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Conflicted
I believe it was Ayn Rand who said that contradictions do not exist. It was an ‘a-ha’ moment for me when I first read this quote. This was also the principle behind my R-Quadrant. More recently, I have been pondering over the contradictions and the conflicted life we all live. Why is it that we… 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.