Zoetis CTO on AI Operating-Model Change
Most AI efforts are still stuck in personal productivity. Zoetis CTO Kumar Venugopal on what it takes for AI to change the process itself.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership: written from 15+ years in the field.
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Why Your AI Effort Has Activity But Not Impact
Plenty of pilots, training, tools, and output but not enough business traction? The problem may not be AI. AI may be improving the wrong part of the system.
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Spec-Driven Development Isn't Waterfall
Spec-driven development can be a smarter way to steer AI coding agents, or waterfall with more tokens. The difference is whether the spec creates learning.
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Agentic AI: "Human in the Loop" Is Too Small
"Human in the loop" is too small. The real shift is humans moving up a level: shaping the work, the workflow, the agents, the guardrails, the next decision.
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What's In The Way of Your AI Traction?
AI vibe coding gets frustrating inside the wrong operating system. It gets traction when the organization can turn experiments into business results.
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Product Ownership Topology: Who Makes the Tough Calls?
Product ownership is an accountability, not a job title. How I think about it for one team, for an inbound/outbound split, and for a platform team getting asks from five different products.
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