Change Management, Not Tech, Is the Biggest Bottleneck in Enterprise AI Adoption
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-22
- The author argues the real bottleneck in enterprise AI diffusion is change management: firms budget annually and report quarterly, while AI capability cycles compress exponentially underneath.
- A case study: a fund rolled out coding agents portfolio-wide with embedded engineers, but only one portfolio company got real results — the operating partner himself called it "harder than expected."
- The author is skeptical that mandates can reinvent firms, since companies are collections of humans and decade-tenured CEOs rarely rewrite their own org design.
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