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When AI enters the boardroom, it tends to arrive with big promises: productivity, automation, efficiency. But for Francesco Brenna, Global Leader of AI Integration Services at IBM Consulting, the real opportunity isn’t just faster workflows—it’s rebuilding how business gets done from the ground up. In this episode, recorded in the heat of a New York summer, Francesco joined me to unpack what agentic AI really means for enterprise leaders and why “doing AI right” is about more than picking the latest model. We began by breaking down the term agentic AI, which Francesco defines as the shift from passive assistants to intelligent agents that can actually execute work, not just suggest how to do it. That might sound subtle, but it’s a huge leap. And it’s not one companies can take by simply layering AI on top of broken or inefficient processes. Instead, IBM is helping its clients rethink entire workflows, starting not with the tech stack, but with the business outcome. Francesco explains why data readiness is sti