We often think of AI agents as digital employees.
When companies treat agents as “digital employees,” they tend to make two critical mistakes. First, they manage agents like individual workers rather than as...
When companies treat agents as “digital employees,” they tend to make two critical mistakes. First, they manage agents like individual workers rather than as a system of cognitive capabilities. Second, they miss the opportunity to redesign processes and instead try to “swap” humans with AI within the same outdated structures. This approach limits innovation and creates governance blind spots.
A more effective framing is to view each AI agent as both a skill and a product.
As a skill, an agent represents a specific cognitive capability—like summarizing legal cases or forecasting retail demand—that can be improved, reused, and extended across use cases.
As a product, it must sit on a solid foundation with governance, telemetry, and lifecycle management, so it scales safely and delivers long-term value.
This leads to a dual roadmap: one for developing new skills and another for building the foundational platform that supports them. Early efforts may focus on launching specific skills, but over time, success depends on strengthening the platform that enables those skills to grow.
Instead of hiring “digital workers,” enterprises should build a portfolio of reusable AI skills on strong foundations. This shift in mindset is key to unlocking real transformation from agentic AI.
(Source: https://lnkd.in/g4TMHAj2)
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