Winning the AI race means delivering scaled, governed, business outcome-oriented AI for employees. In this conversation, Rakshit Ghura explains why pilots are easy, but enterprise value is not. He shares how fragmented ownership creates inconsistency, trust gaps, and security risk, and why IT is emerging as the “coach” that creates the platform, connects departments to a common control layer, and helps organizations standardize AI adoption across the workforce.
Topics covered:
• AI adoption vs. AI execution
• Ownership and accountability for AI
• Governance, trust, and consistency
• The rise of the two-tier workforce
• AI-native workplace strategy
• Agentic AI and IT transformation
• Standardizing enterprise AI adoption
• IT as a strategic coach and playmaker
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Lenovo Work Reborn
01:13 Meet Rakshit
01:28 What Winning Means
02:52 Who Owns AI
04:29 Roles Like Football
06:00 Lenovo As Partner
06:59 What Breaks First
08:30 One AI Experience
09:28 IT Bandwidth Crunch
11:26 Agentic AI Frees IT
12:32 Modern IT Platform Shift
13:49 IT As Coach
16:32 Avoid Two Tier Workforce
17:37 Next Year Outcomes
18:40 Conclusion and Further Resources
Work Reborn is a Lenovo Digital Workplace Solutions research initiative exploring how AI is transforming the modern workplace.
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