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Friendly retro toy robot carrying a shopping basket toward a storefront, illustrating AI agents shopping for customers

Agentic AI in CX: Preparing for Agentic Commerce

Personal AI agents are starting to shop, reorder and file complaints for customers. See what that means for CX volume, security and discoverability.

How AI Leaders Really Approach Agentic AI Automation

How AI Leaders Really Approach Agentic AI Automation

Automation leaders keep deterministic automation as the backbone, use agentic AI only where rules fall short, and agree governance before agents ship.

Article illustration: Agentic Commerce Infrastructure: 4 Questions for CX Leaders

Agentic Commerce Infrastructure: 4 Questions for CX Leaders

Agentic commerce infrastructure comes down to four questions: discoverability to AI agents, agent authentication, liability for mistakes, and fulfillment.

Why AI Strategy Should Start With Business Goals

Why AI Strategy Should Start With Business Goals

AI strategy should start with business goals, not tools. How leaders delegate to AI, avoid AI slop, build a community of multipliers and stay accountable.

Why AI Adoption Starts With Becoming AI-Ready

Why AI Adoption Starts With Becoming AI-Ready

Explore why enterprise AI adoption succeeds only after leaders build AI readiness, tackle shadow AI risk, and invest in workforce upskilling.

Agentic AI: Access Controls, Tools, Workslop — This Week in AI with O'Reilly, Andreas Welsch

Agentic AI Vendor Risk: Access Limits, Sovereignty, Workslop

Agentic AI vendor risk grows when model access can vanish overnight. How leaders plan multi-model routing, sovereign AI, delegation, and safe rollouts.

LinkedIn Learning Office Hours with Andreas Welsch and Justin Valley on SAP AI Agents

SAP Agentic AI: Leadership Lessons for Adoption

SAP agentic AI adoption starts with a KPI-led pilot, pre-built Joule capabilities, trust controls for master data, and transparent workforce change.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Agentic AI Pilots: From Prototype to Business Value

Agentic AI Pilots: From Prototype to Business Value

Agentic AI pilots create value when leaders redesign workflows first, govern risk as autonomy scales, address workforce fear and choose build vs buy well.

The AI MEMO article illustration: How to Prevent AI Workslop and Retain Human Judgment

How to Prevent AI Workslop and Retain Human Judgment

Prevent AI workslop by requiring refinement before escalation, training by role, capping token costs, and keeping people accountable for what AI produces.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Tokenmaxxing: Why AI Usage Leaderboards Backfire

Tokenmaxxing: Why AI Usage Leaderboards Backfire

tokenmaxxing rewards AI usage, not outcomes. Why token leaderboards backfire, how metacognition protects judgment, and what controls curb vibe coding debt.

Andreas Welsch on The Peggy Smedley Show episode AI: Help or Hindrance

AI Agent Control Plane: Governing Agentic AI at Scale

An AI agent control plane shows which agents exist, what they access and how they perform. Govern agent sprawl with lifecycle management and guardrails.

Andreas Welsch presenting to GLG members about moving from Agentic AI adoption to impact

Moving from Agentic AI Adoption to Impact

Andreas Welsch offers practical guidance on AI governance guardrails, upskilling, and moving beyond pilot purgatory.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Agentic AI for the Workforce: AI Leadership Lessons

Agentic AI for the Workforce: AI Leadership Lessons

Agentic AI for the workforce is a people and process change. Start with strategy and KPIs, measure business impact, train teams, protect talent pipelines.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Responsibility for AI Output: Why Leaders Stay on the Hook

Responsibility for AI Output: Why Leaders Stay on the Hook

AI speeds up drafting, not responsibility for AI output. How leaders curb workslop, protect the talent bench, and govern agentic AI as digital employees.

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How to Measure AI Adoption in the Prove-It Phase

Measure AI adoption by outcomes, not prompts or logins. What leaders must fix in the prove-it phase: clarity, upskilling, workflows, and accountability.

Andreas Welsch on PEX Network executive panel: Why Governance Is Critical For AI Innovation

Why Governance Is Critical For AI Innovation

Build AI governance that accelerates adoption without chaos. Key lessons on policy, training, measurement, and vendor selection from an executive panel.

The Digital Economist feature of Andreas Welsch: The Future of Entry-Level Talent with AI

AI and Entry-Level Jobs: Protecting the Talent Bench

AI and entry-level jobs: why cutting junior roles weakens succession, how entry-level work shifts toward synthesis, and how leaders avoid never-skilling.

Andreas Welsch speaking at Zycus Webinar: Agentic AI: What Procurement Leaders Should Prioritize for 2026

Agentic AI in Procurement: What Leaders Should Prioritize

Agentic AI in procurement: start with the business problem, fund data readiness, match autonomy to risk and upskill teams. See which workflows are ready.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Creating Authentic Thought Leadership In The Age Of AI

Authentic Thought Leadership in the Age of AI

Authentic thought leadership in the age of AI: add a real point of view, use AI as an editor, not an author, and keep human judgment and accountability.

Agentic AI and the SaaSpocalypse — illustration on enterprise SaaS disruption

Why Agentic AI Won’t Bring The “SaaSpocalypse” Overnight

Andreas Welsch explains how agentic AI reshapes Enterprise SaaS: disruption risk, outcome-based pricing, governance, traceability, and workforce shifts.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Avoiding “AI Workslop” and Designing Accountable Work

How Leaders Prevent AI Workslop and Protect Quality

AI workslop shifts review onto leaders. Prevent it with clear decision rights, accountability for AI output, and hands-on training that protects quality.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Agentic AI: Practical Strategies for Scaling, Governance, and Workforce Adoption

Agentic AI: Scaling, Governance and Workforce Adoption

Agentic AI is moving beyond proof-of-concept pilots into operational deployments.

The AI MEMO article illustration: AI Leadership: How Executives Boost Potential With AI (Without Workslop)

How Executives Boost Human Potential With AI

Boost human potential with AI by moving past Copilot rollouts: start with business problems, use existing vendor AI features, and scale with champions.

The AI MEMO article illustration: How IT Leaders Develop A Roadmap To Drive Agentic AI Success

AI Roadmap: How IT Leaders Go From Pilot to Scale

An AI roadmap turns adoption strategy into phases: prioritize use cases with owners and KPIs, set governance early, reskill teams, then pilot and scale.

The AI MEMO article illustration: AI Leadership in the Age of Agentic AI

How Leaders Adopt Agentic AI Responsibly

How leaders adopt agentic AI responsibly: clear AI ownership, secure tools, guardrails for citizen developers, and upskilling that prevents AI workslop.

Andreas Welsch discusses lightweight AI governance, AI slop and shadow AI

Lightweight AI Governance: Stop AI Slop and Shadow AI

Lightweight AI governance keeps AI slop and shadow AI in check: a fast intake process, one quality bar for all work, and human accountability for AI work.

The AI MEMO article illustration: AI Leadership: How to Run Successful AI Projects Without Overspending

How to Run Successful AI Projects Without Overspending

Run successful AI projects by tying each one to a KPI, expecting iterative cycles, reviewing progress monthly, and using lightweight governance on spend.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Practical Adoption, Governance, and Measurable Impact for Agentic AI

Practical Adoption, Governance, and Measurable Impact for Agentic AI

What is Agentic AI really, how to avoid agent washing, and how can leaders govern adoption, prevent AI slop, and drive measurable impact.

The AI MEMO article illustration: Accelerating Generative AI Adoption in Project Management

AI in Project Management: A Guide for Leaders

AI in project management shifts work from gathering status to review and decisions. Why teams hide AI use, and how leaders set quality and accountability.

The AI MEMO article illustration: AI Productivity: How to Boost Output Without Lowering Standards

AI Productivity: How to Boost Output Without Lowering Standards

AI productivity only counts when it moves KPIs: test vendor claims, measure outcomes over minutes, and put people, data and governance first.