Post by Frederic Bescond

FOMO is the most expensive AI strategy in enterprise right now. In 2025, 42% of organizations abandoned most of their AI initiatives. That was 17% the year before. (S&P Global Market Intelligence) The pattern is almost always the same. A new hype drops. Competitor leaders rush to LinkedIn to claim their pilot as a win. Leadership feels the pressure. A POC gets greenlit in two weeks. No clear success metric. No workflow redesign. No adoption plan. Just a demo that wows the room. Three months later: nothing in production. That's not an AI strategy. That's a headless chicken with a budget. The problem isn't execution speed. Most organizations still treat AI as a tool. A faster, smarter tool. But still a tool. Well... It isn't. AI is the first technology that actively introduces agents into your team structure. It doesn't just accelerate tasks. It transforms processes, who owns them, and how your organization is (re)wired. McKinsey is blunt on this: companies achieving real impact are nearly 3x more likely to redesign workflows around AI rather than layer AI on top of existing ones. That gap explains almost everything. So the right question isn't "which AI tool should we test next?" It's: which process, if rebuilt around an AI agent, would produce a gain that scales and holds at least six months from now without constant maintenance? That question slows you down at the start. It speeds you up everywhere else. Working on agent-based workflows at Witivio - AI Solutions for Microsoft 365, that's what we see consistently: operating model first, tooling second. And when your process design is solid, the model becomes interchangeable. Today Claude. Yesterday Gemini. Tomorrow ChatGPT again? Microsoft 365 has a structural answer to this: already at the heart of your teams, just swap the model underneath when needed. Context stays. Process stays. The real competitive advantage is building something that survives the next model release. And moves fast when a real game changer shows up. #AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #EnterpriseAI #FrontierFirms