What Sits Upstream of the KPI
Every KPI carries a strategic hypothesis. The real work of governance is to preserve that reasoning and create a trusted path for evidence to travel back.
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Artificial Intelligence
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Why We Need Good Friction in the Age of AI
AI can make us better at knowing, deciding and executing. The leadership challenge is knowing which struggles to remove—and which ones we need to preserve.
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Varun Nagaraj
Dean and Professor of Information Management and Analytics | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
Built to Last in an Age of Continuous Change
AI is making information and analysis abundant. The harder strategic question is knowing what must change—and what must endure
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
When More Intelligence Makes Strategy Harder
AI has made intelligence abundant. Why, then, is strategy becoming harder?
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
The Question AI Cannot Ask
The real advantage in an AI-driven world may not be answering questions better, but knowing which questions matter
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
When Trust Becomes Infrastructure
Part 4 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As agents begin working together, trust shifts from intelligence to standards, governance, and control.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When Intelligence is Taken for Granted, Behaviour is What Matters
Part 3 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As intelligence becomes abundant, organisations stop hiring for capability and begin designing for behaviour.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When Work Runs on Two Minds
As human and machine learning begin to intersect, work is no longer shaped by a single reinforcement loop, but by the interaction of fundamentally different ones. Part 2 of an ongoing series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI.
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
When AI Writes the Code, Who Guards the System?
As AI-assisted coding accelerates software development, enterprises face a new challenge: ensuring governance, accountability, and safety keep pace with machine-speed innovation
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Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader
The Knowledge Divide: How AI Will Reorganise Work, Margins, and Power
As AI agents embed intelligence into systems, the real shift is not automation—but how knowledge is owned, shared, and scaled across organisations
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
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