Prashant AkhawatBuilding AI-Native Enterprises
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Articles, whitepapers, decks and briefings on AI as enterprise substrate: governance, the inference economy, and the architecture of the AI‑native firm.
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Education Reforms, Indian Perspective · Edition 14
India has never had more educated people, and no national dataset tracks university licensing income, technology transfer revenue or how many spin-outs survive five years. Edition 14 argues the system is succeeding at an objective the economy has stopped rewarding, and proposes two instruments: a Capability Degree and a Mission PhD.
Enterprise AI Series · Edition 11
A hospital is an assembly system: information is gathered episodically, by people, so a decision can be made. Edition 11 replaces the placeholder from Edition 10 and names the alternative, five systems in which information is assembled continuously, human attention is allocated by exception, and the building is what you invoke when a decision needs a physical act.
Enterprise AI Series · Edition 10
More than 16 million virtual consultations across 242 connected hospitals, and two Saudi-developed AI medical products authorised by the SFDA on 10 September 2026. Edition 10 argues the advantage is timing, not ambition: most health systems have already decided what their hospitals are for, and that design window closes one commissioning decision at a time.
Enterprise AI Series · Edition 09
Nine in ten large companies use AI and eighty percent report personal productivity gains, but only thirty-seven percent can attribute any EBIT impact. Edition 09 argues the difference is enterprise design, not technology: among value captors seventy-three percent redesigned workflows, and in life sciences the cost of not doing so is highest.
Enterprise AI Series · Edition 08
Microsoft grew revenue 18 percent in fiscal 2026 while employing five thousand fewer people. Edition 08 is the financial anatomy of that break: revenue per employee when the denominator stops growing, the honest divisor of FTE-equivalents, the human-agent ratio as the new span of control, and the five numbers a board will start reading.
Life Sciences Series · Edition 01
Frontier and open-weight models both break the assumption forty years of Computer System Validation rests on. Edition 01 of the Life Sciences Series names the AI Validation Gap, shows why model choice is not the deciding factor, and sets out Continuous AI Validation under GAMP 5 with ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act integrated beneath it.
Enterprise AI Series · Edition 07
Every job is unbundling into relay work, which moves to the machine layer, and judgment work, which commands a premium. Edition 07 is the talent architecture of that split: the six machine-layer roles with skills and feeders, every classic role rebuilt, the new career ladder, the redesigned first rung, and a 90-day plan for the CHRO.
Governance Series · Article 4
The EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 are not three programs to run in parallel; they are three altitudes of one system. Article 4 of the CXO Intelligence: Governance Series: the convergence playbook, with a capability crosswalk, the ten-layer AI Governance Operating Stack, the revised EU timeline after the 2026 Digital Omnibus, and a companion guidance pack.
Governance Series · Companion Reference
The Companion Reference to Governance Series, Article 4. A 32-row capability crosswalk, a 260-item implementation checklist, the ISO/IEC AI family clause map, a five-level maturity model, the operating-model RACI, a 30/60/90/180-day roadmap, a board dashboard, nine templates, and the AI Governance Navigator.
Enterprise AI Series · Investigation
Samsung markets up to seven years of software support on premium Galaxy phones. The standard hardware warranty is twelve months. One documented green-line display failure, followed from invoice to final refusal, and what the gap says about hardware accountability.