Tag: ai-strategy

8 posts tagged with "ai-strategy"

• The Pilot Trap: Why Most Agent Initiatives Never Become Portfolio (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 playbook names 'many pilots, no portfolio' as the top scale-breaker. This is the practitioner read on why agent pilots stall and what it actually takes to graduate to portfolio.

• The Scale-Breaker Microsoft Doesn't Name: Why Your AI Program Stalls Where the Playbook Doesn't Look (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 Agentic Patterns Playbook names five capability drivers. The scale-breaker most enterprises actually hit is the sixth one the framework doesn't measure.

• The Six Agentic Adoption Patterns: A Practitioner Decode of Microsoft's New Playbook (2026)

  May 26, 2026

  A practitioner read of Microsoft's Agentic Transformation Patterns Playbook: six patterns, the 5x5 maturity model, CoE structures, what it understates.

• Enterprise AI Is More Than RAG: The Three Context Layers (2026)

  May 14, 2026

  Enterprise AI is a context orchestration problem, not a retrieval problem. Three knowledge layers, three architecture levels, the operational truth distinction.

• AI Engineering Productivity ROI: Tokens vs Closed Tickets

  April 28, 2026

  Vendor AI dashboards count tokens. The CFO counts closed tickets. A framework with cited inputs and an illustrative ROI calculator for the AI engineering operating model.

• AI Readiness Assessment for Microsoft Enterprises: 8 Dimensions, Honest Scoring

  April 2, 2026

  Free 8-dimension AI readiness assessment for Microsoft enterprises. 16 statements, 5 minutes, calibrated against what actually goes wrong in production deployments. Microsoft-stack-specific recommendations.

• Microsoft AI Certifications in 2026: Which Ones Actually Matter

  February 16, 2026

  Microsoft is retiring AI-900, AI-102, and DP-100 by June 2026. Here is the full replacement map and which new AI certifications are worth your time.

• What Are Azure AI Services in 2026? A Complete Overview

  February 12, 2026

  Azure AI Services in 2026 explained: five core services, the RAG pattern that works, and how to pick the right one for your project.