
Agentic AI: Are You Ready to Meet Your New Coworker?
Learn how agentic AI can benefit your organization and how to implement it responsibly from top AI experts, entrepreneurs and pioneers.
Meg Virag | January 17, 2025
Agentic AI is promised to be the next evolution of tech after generative AI, and companies like Microsoft are committing to making it a part of their core strategy – but what does this term mean, and how can businesses responsibly leverage it for a competitive advantage?
If you’re interested in learning more about responsibly utilizing these AI tools that can make decisions and act on their own without human intervention, we’ve put together a primer from the globally renowned AI experts represented by Stern Strategy Group.
Whether you’re new to the idea of AI agents or ready to get started collaborating with digital coworkers, read these articles by Stern’s roster of tech pioneers, academics and entrepreneurs to get straightforward, practical guidance on how to get ahead using AI that can think and act for itself.
Paul Daugherty is a visionary technology leader who recently retired from his role as CEO of Accenture’s Technology Group. In his recent co-authored Harvard Business Review article, “The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign,” he accessibly explains how powerful agentic AI tools take genAI a step further by making decisions, taking action and improving processes on their own.
Daniela Rus, a prominent roboticist and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, gives a straightforward rundown of the technology powering robots today, what advantages humans have over machines, and how robots can give us new abilities in her compelling book, “The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future With Robots.” You can read an excerpt in this recent MIT Ideas Made to Matter article – “Robots Aren’t Magic, but They Could Give Humans ‘Superpowers’”.
Tom Davenport, an MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy fellow and a pioneering authority on AI strategies, delivers pragmatic guidance on discerning the promises of agentic AI from media-driven hype in “Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025,” his fascinating look ahead in the MIT Sloan Management Review.
Rana el Kaliouby, an AI trailblazer whose work on emotional, humanized AI tools is essential to organizations designing ethical business strategies, recently launched the captivating “Pioneers in AI” podcast. In a standout episode, “How Agentic AI Will Save Customer Service,” Rana is joined by Bret Taylor, former co-CEO of Salesforce and co-founder of Sierra, which focuses on developing conversational AI platforms for businesses, to explore how to build AI agents that can represent a brand’s mission and voice.
The experts represented by Stern Strategy Group can help your organization learn about, prepare for or even implement an agentic AI strategy that can take your business to the next level. Also available for one-on-one coaching or extended term advising, the authorities we work with can bring your leaders the resources they need to win in our new AI-powered world.
If you’re exploring AI tools that can make decisions and act independently, it’s important to get practical guidance on how to implement them in ways that keep humans at the center. Stern Strategy Group connects you with renowned thought leaders whose insights, strategies and management frameworks help organizations fuel growth and disruptive innovation to better compete in a constantly changing world. Let us arrange for these esteemed experts to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting sessions, workshops and keynotes.