Why companies are stuck in yesterday β and how to use AI to build an organization that's ready for tomorrow


In an average organization, most of the day is about one thing: solving problems that were already occurring yesterday. There are endless meetings about overdue tasks, ad-hoc issues become priority, and teams run from deadline to deadline. But there is one problem: this behavior inhibits your future.
Because while you're busy with yesterday, AI is busy with tomorrow. The organizations that are thinking ahead today are now laying the foundation for their advantage the day after tomorrow. The companies that get stuck in short-term thinking are irrevocably falling behind. If you have a agentic, AI-driven organization If you want to become, you need to switch immediately. That doesn't mean optimizing a bit or implementing an AI tool here and there, but fundamentally different way of looking at how your organization works.
There are two domains that you need to build on at the same time:
(1) your operating model of the future
(2) your strategic innovation strength.
The biggest misconception about AI is that it's an βextra tool.β
In reality, AI is a new foundation under your organization.
Process-based work will increasingly be carried out by AI. Think about:
This is not about small gains in efficiency. This is about a completely new operating model.
What does our organization look like when:
This requires redesigning your processes. Do not polish. Do not patch. But redesigning.
An agentic organization works with AI Agents that:
This means that each team - from HR to marketing and from finance to operations - gets different activities. People are becoming less executive and more directing, creative, strategic, and controlling.
In addition to redesigning your operations, you need to work on a more fundamental question:
If AI takes over most of our processes... what will be our new added value?
Organizations that think about this now are creating their future. The rest will be overtaken by AI-native competitors that move faster, have lower costs and can scale up exponentially.
Where companies now spend perhaps 80% of their time in operations and 20% on innovation, that should shift to:
The biggest risks for companies no longer lie in inefficient processes, but in the absence of a forward-looking model. AI accelerates innovation cycles, makes new business models possible and turns existing markets upside down.
To really transform, you need to use time differently. The companies that are growing fastest in an AI-driven world use this ratio:
This mix ensures that you not only become more efficient, but also more relevant, faster, smarter and future-proof.
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