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The traditional strategy practice carried on for decades was a simple formula: leaders defining the direction and communicating it to peers who execute. But now, with agentic AI not just processing commands but also acting on intent by understanding the desired outcome, it completely changes the old-school equation. Soumitra Dutta (Portulans and NEXIVERIFY co-founder), in his "Programmable Strategy: When Strategy Becomes Code," which he wrote with Yves Doz (INSEAD), the sec

Nobody asks if a passenger plane is "intelligent". The only question is whether it is reliable every time it flies․ AI is starting to get assessed against the same standard․ When AI was trapped inside a chat window‚ an impressive demo was a decent stand-in for progress․ The model writing cleaner code‚ translating more accurately, etc. But once AI starts to matter outside the bubble of the chat window‚ reliability will be the thing that matters․ Soumitra Dutta‚ former dean of

In almost every conversation about innovation, someone resorts to some old words: vision, disruption, etc. Soumitra Dutta, former dean of Oxford Said Business School, reaches for something altogether different: a four-year-old child. Soumitra Dutta, Oxford Dean, who recently cofounded AI startups NexiVerify and Caasaa, got the idea from Hal Gregersen, MIT senior lecturer and co-author of the book Innovator’s DNA, but he has clearly made it his own. Four-year-olds, he says, ar