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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Is SaaS dead? Not yet – But the Build-vs-Buy question CxOs are asking as already obsolete
In the mid-1990s, I was on a small Intel team building WIINGS, an indirect-inventory system for factory stores. We were told an ERP rollout would replace it within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while the UI evolved around it. For two decades, enterprises outsourced differentiation to SaaS in the… Continue
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What beyond the Co-Pilot? The Wire-Hanger test most leadership teams fail
At an Intel leadership conference, our then-CIO Diane Bryant ran a lateral-thinking exercise – List every use case you can think of for a motel-room wire hanger. Twenty of us in the room struggled to get past three to five and a couple of sharper thinkers hit ten. She then shared that when the same… Continue
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Vibe Coding will 10x your best engineers – and your worst ones too
If you haven’t caught on yet, meet ‘vibe coding,’ popularized by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in a tweet that hit over 4 million views. I won’t try to do it justice in a paraphrase as the term has since taken on a life of its own. I can only pity the developers who took the… 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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AI Disruption is coming for the services Industry first – Here’s the Org Chart that survives It
The narrative keeps repeating itself, the way all narratives eventually do. You’ll be replaced by AI or replaced by someone who knows how to use it. In short, you’re supposedly cooked unless you jump on the bandwagon. The fearmongering mostly produces a workforce that learns to use chatbots and believes that alone is a competitive… 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.