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Agentic AI Is Already in Your Organization. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.

May 12, 2026

Agentic AI is already operating inside many organizations through workflows, tools, and connected systems. The governance question is no longer whether agents are coming, but whether leaders can see, control, and audit what they are already doing.

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Your Gen AI Governance FrameworkIs Already Behind.Here’s How to Fix It.

April 16, 2026

Most financial institutions are deploying generative AI faster than they’re governing it. The gap between those two speeds is where the real risk lives.

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IBMtechxchange

Why AI Projects Fail After the Pilot and How to Scale

October 14, 2025

Data Products’ Dr. Mechie Nkengla and Michael Pompey lead a lively session at IBM TechXchange. They shared a practical playbook to move AI from pilot to production: ownership, data readiness, lean governance, adoption, and unit economics.

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AI Layoffs 2.0: The Middle Manager Massacre

June 16, 2025

From Meta to Google and IBM, the pink slips are piling up. And while corporate leaders cite “efficiency gains” and “AI integration,” the real price may be the slow death of mentorship, institutional memory, and leadership succession itself.

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Generative AI

Data Products CEO, Dr. Mechie Nkengla, Appointed to Illinois Generative AI & NLP Task Force

October 9, 2024

CEO and Chief AI & Data Strategist, Mechie Nkengla, Ph.D. has been appointed, to the established Illinois Generative AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Task Force.

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Data and AI Buzzwords

Updated: Top 5 Most Overcooked Data and AI Buzzwords: A Take on Our Love Affair with Jargon

July 13, 2023

Data buzzwords 🐝 AI buzzwords 🐝 What’s the big idea? UPDATED: The Top 5 Most Misused Data Buzzwords -bigdata, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, LLM, generative AI, storytelling

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