https://blog.redpico.com/Data and AI governance by Ash Srivastavahttps://blog.redpico.com/posts/george-farag-what-to-learn-next/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/george-farag-what-to-learn-next/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400A computer science student and GDG chapter lead on learning when the tools keep changing - and why mentorship matters more in the AI era.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/chad-randall-ai-adoption/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/chad-randall-ai-adoption/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Chad Randall, Head of Enterprise at DoxAI, has lived through the PC, the internet, social media and now AI. His advice for adopting AI at work.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/nobody-builds-a-career-alone/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/nobody-builds-a-career-alone/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Why I make time for community stages, students and young professionals - and why leadership practice is rarer than leadership content.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-qualification-gets-you-started/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-qualification-gets-you-started/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400The ability to keep learning keeps you moving. In my conversation with Ashwin Balu, one line stayed with me: "Learn how to learn." His career at IBM has...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/shadow-ai-was-already-a-problem/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/shadow-ai-was-already-a-problem/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Now we're entering the era of shadow agents. An employee creates an AI agent.....Connects it to company data.......Gives it access to an...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/last-week-i-had-conversations-with-a-few-leaders-i-was-there/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/last-week-i-had-conversations-with-a-few-leaders-i-was-there/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400but I walked away with important lessons for professionals at any stage of their career. These individuals (tagged below) reminded me the secret to...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/every-ai-agent-should-have-a-passport/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/every-ai-agent-should-have-a-passport/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Before an agent enters the enterprise environment, you should know: Who is it? Who owns it? What is it allowed to access? What can it do? What data can it...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/master-data-management-may-become-one-of-the-most-important/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/master-data-management-may-become-one-of-the-most-important/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Why? Because AI agents need context. An agent working with customers needs to know which customer record is authoritative. An agent working with products...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/i-think-we-re-entering-an-era-where-your-data-strategy-is-yo/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/i-think-we-re-entering-an-era-where-your-data-strategy-is-yo/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400Why? Because AI agents don't just need models. They need context. And enterprise context lives in: ->CRM ->ERP ->PIM ->MDM ->Documents ->Knowledge bases...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/imagine-opening-your-enterprise-architecture-diagram-in-2028/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/imagine-opening-your-enterprise-architecture-diagram-in-2028/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400and seeing 150,000 AI agents. That's Gartner's prediction for the average Fortune 500 enterprise. For context, Gartner says the number was fewer than 15...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/not-every-ai-agent-deserves-the-same-level-of-governance/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/not-every-ai-agent-deserves-the-same-level-of-governance/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400That's one of the biggest mistakes I'm seeing in enterprise AI thinking. Consider three agents: Agent A: summarizes documents. Agent B: recommends pricing...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/here-s-a-number-that-should-worry-every-enterprise-ai-leader/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/here-s-a-number-that-should-worry-every-enterprise-ai-leader/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400And we're asking AI agents to make decisions. MIT Technology Review Insights found that 55% of executives say their current data systems actively prevent...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/context-windows-vs-data-architecture/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/context-windows-vs-data-architecture/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Dumping a database into a prompt doesn't solve search. In the AI era, data engineering is about filtering noise so the model gets the right context.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/every-enterprise-adopting-ai-agents-needs-a-new-layer-in-its/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/every-enterprise-adopting-ai-agents-needs-a-new-layer-in-its/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400I call it the Agent Control Plane. It should answer five questions: Who is the agent? What data can it access? What systems can it change? What decisions...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/ai-agents-state-persistence/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/ai-agents-state-persistence/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Agents that shine in a two-minute demo fall apart in a 20-hour workflow. The fix is state persistence, not better system prompts.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/hard-problem-token-efficiency-in-self-improving-agents-letti/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/hard-problem-token-efficiency-in-self-improving-agents-letti/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400When an agent loops through thinking, critiquing, and fixing its own code, token usage explodes. If you don't control this at the architecture layer,...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/gartner-projects-that-more-than-1-in-10-enterprises-will-be/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/gartner-projects-that-more-than-1-in-10-enterprises-will-be/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400The defining separator between the winners and everyone else won't be model capability. Gartner's latest Data & Analytics trends report highlights the...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/data-consolidation-is-accelerating-at-an-unprecedented-pace/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/data-consolidation-is-accelerating-at-an-unprecedented-pace/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Every enterprise is realizing a simple reality: your AI agent is only as good as the underlying data stack feeding it. The current operational model of...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/stop-upgrading-your-llm/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/stop-upgrading-your-llm/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400If your enterprise AI agents are hallucinating, the problem isn't the model—it's your missing data context layer. According to Gartner's CIO & Technology...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/88-of-enterprises-are-running-ai-across-core-operations/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/88-of-enterprises-are-running-ai-across-core-operations/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Only 8% have a governance framework to control it. According to Deloitte, while adoption is accelerating, just 21% of organizations have mature oversight...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/last-month-i-was-at-the-leaders-in-ai-executive-summit-event/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/last-month-i-was-at-the-leaders-in-ai-executive-summit-event/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400It brought together some of the sharpest minds to debate the real-world realities of enterprise AI adoption. Moving to scalable enterprise impact is no...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/80-of-enterprise-ai-projects-fail-more-than-double-the-failu/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/80-of-enterprise-ai-projects-fail-more-than-double-the-failu/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400The root cause isn't the model. It's bad data. Recent 2025–2026 data from RAND, Gartner, and MIT Sloan exposes a critical truth: you cannot build 5-star...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/this-past-weekend-i-had-the-privilege-of-speaking-at-the-ai/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/this-past-weekend-i-had-the-privilege-of-speaking-at-the-ai/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400It was inspiring to share the stage with great leaders and engage with a room full of passionate professionals, students, and technology enthusiasts...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/mit-sloan-management-review-notes-that-69-experts-view-agent/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/mit-sloan-management-review-notes-that-69-experts-view-agent/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Define the explicit boundaries, assign hard human ownership to every domain, and treat digital assets with strict strategic discipline.. 🔗 Read the full...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-truth-is-painful-but-simple-the-technology-doesn-t-fail/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-truth-is-painful-but-simple-the-technology-doesn-t-fail/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Bain & Company, in it's four-part series from Roadmap to Reality: Phasing Agentic AI into Production (Eric Sheng, Roger Zhu, Brendan O., Dale P., and...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/world-s-first-formal-government-framework-for-agentic-ai-gov/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/world-s-first-formal-government-framework-for-agentic-ai-gov/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Their core architectural standard is remarkably simple yet incredibly powerful: you must give every single autonomous agent a definitive, unalterable...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/mckinsey-partner-richard-isenberg-recently-gathered-top-ciso/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/mckinsey-partner-richard-isenberg-recently-gathered-top-ciso/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400The panel featured Deneen DeFiore(United Airlines), Guy Gecht (Logitech,SolarEdge Technologies) and Manjula Talreja(Verint, Imprivata, Ping Identity,...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-harvard-business-review-states-that-modern-organizations/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/the-harvard-business-review-states-that-modern-organizations/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Just as you need a skilled product manager to guide software development, you need dedicated leaders to run autonomous agent fleets at scale. This role...https://blog.redpico.com/posts/anthropic-open-weights-letter/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/anthropic-open-weights-letter/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400Most of big tech signed a letter against restricting open-weight AI. Anthropic didn't. What each side gets right, and the question it leaves builders.https://blog.redpico.com/posts/deloitte-s-latest-research-highlights-agentic-ai-is-scaling/https://blog.redpico.com/posts/deloitte-s-latest-research-highlights-agentic-ai-is-scaling/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0400A shocking market evaluation shows that just 21% of companies possess the capability to govern the autonomous agents they are already running. When you...