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Research Topic

AI Organizational Design

Where AI sits in the org chart predicts outcomes more reliably than which model a team uses. Companies that pull AI out from under IT or Engineering and give it a P&L owner consistently compound faster than companies that treat AI as a tools layer. The reason is organizational authority, not technical capability: AI programs that have to negotiate for resources across three VPs every quarter rarely survive the second one. The research below covers the structural patterns we see separating the AI programs that are compounding from the ones that are plateauing.

Research Papers
The Org Chart Problem
Why organizational structure determines AI adoption outcomes.
The Mandate Trap
Top-down AI mandates vs. bottom-up adoption — which actually drives results.
The Six Percent
The small fraction of organizations getting real value from AI — and what they do differently.

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