Almost every board conversation I sit in on right now follows the exact same pattern. The strategy decks are full of slides about what comes next. Teams present AI pilots, demonstrate new models, outline partnerships, and describe how the company will become an AI-enabled enterprise. Capital gets allocated to buy tools, hire specialists, and buildContinue reading “The Future Isn’t Built. It’s Unfunded.”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
The Functional Enterprise
What Survives When Expertise Becomes Free AI is making expertise abundant, but modern corporations were built around the opposite assumption: that expertise was scarce and had to be concentrated. That assumption shaped the modern company because every major technology revolution changes more than the tools people use. It changes the way organizations decide, coordinate, andContinue reading “The Functional Enterprise”
The Shortage in the Surge
Every technological revolution creates abundance. Every economic revolution begins with a shortage. This is the central paradox of progress. When a technological breakthrough occurs, our instinct is to gaze directly into the light of the explosion. We celebrate the elimination of a historic limitation. We conclude that the world has changed because what was onceContinue reading “The Shortage in the Surge”