Agentic AI for Leaders: A Practical Guide for Executives
The next evolution in AI: Agentic AI
Agentic AI represents the next evolution in artificial intelligence, moving beyond reactive assistants to autonomous agents capable of executing complex tasks independently. This executive guide explores how agentic AI is transforming business, from dramatically accelerating software development to streamlining drug discovery. It also provides a practical roadmap for business leaders to realize greater value from agentic AI investments - from building the right technical foundations and organizational structures, to implementing governance frameworks and preparing workforces for human-AI collaboration. As we enter this new era, success will come not to those with the grandest plans, but to organizations that start smart, learn fast, and thoughtfully scale agentic AI use cases.
Agentic AI trends & talking points
- Gartner projects that by 2028, one-third of all enterprise software applications will include agentic AI.
- By 2028, AI agents are expected to enable 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously.
- Amazon's agentic AI transformation of legacy applications saved more than 4,500 years of development time and realized $260 million in annual cost savings.
Wondering how to talk with your CEO about agentic AI?
AWS Enterprise Strategists Matthias Patzak and Arvind Mathur have the advice you need. Listen to their Executive Insights episode where they discuss how technology leaders can effectively engage with their CEOs about agentic AI. The two reveal five essential steps for agentic AI success, from picking the right use case, to building cross-functional transformation teams, to measuring real business outcomes.