Enterprise AI transformation is clearing the proof-of-concept stage for many organizations, with execution at scale becoming the new challenge that IT departments alone can\u2019t handle.<\/p>\n
Governance, talent and organizational structure are required to meet C-suite mandates, according to Daniel Prager<\/a> (pictured, right), global partner development lead for Google Cloud at Slalom Consulting LLC, a global business and technology consulting firm. Working closely with customers navigating the gap<\/a> between AI ambition and measurable business impact<\/a>, Slalom sees these same friction points as the forces most likely to slow even the best-laid transformation plans.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing right now is a lot of folks in the C-suite are very excited about AI. They\u2019ve invested in AI. They\u2019re constantly asking VPs and below, \u2018What\u2019s happening with AI in our enterprise? Why aren\u2019t we moving faster? Why aren\u2019t we realizing the vision that we\u2019ve set out?’\u201d Prager said. \u201cOrganizations can\u2019t quite move as quickly as they want due to concerns around governance, security and then also talent.\u201d<\/p>\n Prager and\u00a0Sean Everhart<\/a> (left), managing director of Google Cloud at Slalom, spoke with theCUBE\u2019s John Furrier<\/a> and co-host\u00a0Alison Kosik<\/a> at Google Cloud Next<\/a>, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Slalom is helping enterprises move from isolated pilots to full-scale AI transformation and why the C-suite has become the fastest-moving constituency in the process. (* Disclosure below.)<\/p>\n AI transformation accelerates as C-suite pressure and agentic platforms converge<\/p>\n The strategic shift happening right now is from AI as an assistant to AI as a platform of managed agents. Legacy modernization has emerged as one of the most surprising early wins, according to Everhart. AI tooling can now inspect fragile, decades-old COBOL codebases and decompose their complexity while generating executable modernization plans in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\n \u201cSome things that might have taken three months in the past can take four hours today,\u201d Everhart said. \u201cWhen you collapse some of those key moments in a lifecycle, you need to change everything.\u201d<\/p>\n That acceleration is showing up directly on the income statement. Slalom recently ran a pilot with a large manufacturer focused on warranty claims, feeding just 1% of their workflow through an AI agent pipeline, Prager explained. The result was nearly a million dollars in top-line savings from that single slice of volume alone. It\u2019s the sort of concrete outcome that has moved AI transformation from a CIO initiative to CEO mandate, Everhart added.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to a point where execution has become so fast, all of a sudden, the idea is much more valuable than it\u2019s ever been, and that\u2019s why the C-suite is so hot right now,\u201d Everhart said. \u201cThat\u2019s why you come back to your C-suite. You have this backlog of ideas and now we have execution engines that can make it real in a lapsed timeframe.\u201d<\/p>\n The firm now shows up to client engagements with working demos and prototypes instead of slide decks. Slalom uses AI to surface relationship context across its 10,000 employees, reorganizing delivery around cross-functional teams \u2014 project managers, designers, and full-stack AI engineers \u2014 who continuously rebuild business processes on agentic platforms rather than shipping incremental updates. The most underappreciated story of this AI moment is the technically fluent services partner that can bridge developer-level depth to C-suite outcomes, according to Prager.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the build collapses and as it becomes easier to build things, the challenge is around defining the problem in the right way, showing what the potential business value of the problem is and then also making whatever tool that you\u2019ve built \u2026 [is] enabling folks to use it and maximize that value,\u201d Prager said. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s such a fun time to be a services partner right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE\u2019s and theCUBE\u2019s coverage of\u00a0Google Cloud Next<\/a>:<\/p>\n (* Disclosure: Slalom sponsored this segment of theCUBE. 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