The AI Strategy Brief — an 8-minute weekly briefing on what actually works in enterprise AI. Hosts Akshay and Diu break down the week's biggest research, with the numbers that matter and takeaways you can use on Monday morning. New episode every Saturday. These episodes are AI-generated and human-reviewed for correctness. en https://open.spotify.com/show/3x6x4HNZsBEdYBCrTYe35f Akshay Akshay akshaydewalwar305@gmail.com No episodic https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AkshayAD/ai-strategy-brief-feed/main/cover.png https://open.spotify.com/show/3x6x4HNZsBEdYBCrTYe35f Meet Akshay and Diu. Every Saturday: eight minutes on what actually works in enterprise AI. AI-generated and human-reviewed. ep-5e4d9886-e6b9-486b-9245-d33d1c9de2f2 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:52:16 +0000 31 No Akshay and Diu on the governance flip in enterprise AI: BCG, McKinsey, and the agent management gap. AI-generated and human-reviewed. Chapters: (00:00) The governance flip (00:41) BCG: leaders pull away (02:43) McKinsey: the productivity paradox (04:20) Agents in production: incident data (05:39) Reality check and the market (07:07) Three takeaways ep-0deba5bc-0713-497d-af83-becaffcd350f Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:51:32 +0000 482 No Akshay and Diu on the explainability gap in enterprise AI: FICO, KPMG, and Stanford. AI-generated and human-reviewed. Chapters: (00:00) The explainability gap (00:49) FICO: can you explain it? (02:59) KPMG: the money side (04:05) Agents rank last (04:47) Stanford: junior jobs reframed (06:29) Three takeawaysep2-explainability-gap-2026-10-10Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:33:00 +0000476NoWharton x GBK, n=1,416: growth-measuring departments report strongly positive AI returns at 35% vs 13% for efficiency-only; a designated Chief AI Officer tracks with 58% vs 8% with no such role. Plus Oyster's invisible AI workforce (95% doing AI work their job descriptions never mention) and the WSJ orchestration gap (183 tools on average, only 15% unified). AI-generated and human-reviewed for correctness. Chapters: (00:00) Measure growth, not hours (01:20) Growth vs efficiency: 35 vs 13 (02:36) Ownership and one platform (03:41) Workflows and the supervised middle (05:01) The invisible AI workforce (06:43) Tool sprawl and the Monday actionep3-measure-growth-not-hours-2026-10-17Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000556NoAdobe's 2026 State of AI Readiness Report on India: 59% of companies are stuck in the 'Frozen Middle' between piloting and scale, and only 6.7% have scaled AI across multiple workflows. Akshay and Diu on the ownership vacuum (18% vs 93% with budget authority), the approval funnel where only 15 of every 100 AI ideas reach production, and what Leaders do differently. AI-generated and human-reviewed for correctness. Chapters: (00:00) The frozen middle (00:52) What is the frozen middle (02:26) Ownership: the missing job (03:38) The approval funnel (05:25) What leaders do differently (07:37) Your monday actionep4-the-frozen-middle-2026-10-24Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:39:01 +0000495No