Innovation Brief · IB-2025-04c · April 2025
The Agentic Enterprise Revolution
How AI agents will reshape work, IT, and the future of business
Autonomy without orchestration produces complexity faster than it produces value. IT becomes the HR function of the agentic workforce.
- Authors
Dave WrightChief Innovation Officer
Brian SolisHead of Global Innovation
- Length
- 12 pages
- Themes
- The Future of AI, The Future of Work, The Actualized Enterprise
Summary
- Without proper orchestration, fragmented AI agents will disrupt workflows.
- Enterprises will need a universal AI agent protocol to enable cross-platform collaboration.
- By 2030, AI is expected to evolve from simple automation into self-improving, strategic orchestration.
- IT can lead the charge as the orchestrators of AI agents to drive enterprise transformation.
From the brief
The growing deployment of AI agents across the enterprise led NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to declare that the role of IT in the agentic enterprise might resemble HR: "In a lot of ways, the IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future."
AI agents represent a digital workforce and, like human workers, they require deployment, coordination and collaboration. Without a central authority, managing updates, policies, redundancies, lifecycles and ROI across the enterprise becomes unmanageable.
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