Seizing the Agentic AI Advantage

What was to be expected: “Nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AI—yet just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. Think of it as the ‘gen AI paradox.'”

This is why a domain-specific AI strategy is needed: “At the heart of this paradox is an imbalance between “horizontal” (enterprise-wide) copilots and chatbots—which have scaled quickly but deliver diffuse, hard-to-measure gains—and more transformative “vertical” (function-specific) use cases—about 90 percent of which remain stuck in pilot mode.”

With the Data & AI Business Design Method and Kit it’s easy and fun to identify and prioritize those vertical use cases.

Also the method and canvas tools can be used for Data & AI Business Process Design, which plays a crucial role for future AI applications: “AI agents offer a way to break out of the gen AI paradox. [..] But unlocking the full potential of agentic AI requires more than plugging agents into existing workflows. It calls for reimagining those workflows from the ground up—with agents at the core.”

Btw: check our free workshop template for Multi-Agent System Design on Miroverse!

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