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The Agentic Enterprise
Designing Organisations for the Age of Programmable Intelligence.
A book for leaders, managers and transformation teams building organisations that can work with AI agents — and remain capable of governing what they delegate.
Central ideaTurn knowledge into operational capability.
ReadersLeaders, managers, technology, HR and transformation teams.
PerspectiveOrganisational design, responsibility and collective learning.
The proposition
AI transforms more than tools. It transforms coordination.
What happens when intelligence becomes programmable, distributable and orchestratable? Memory, workflows, responsibilities and management all change.
This book offers a language for deciding what to delegate, what requires human judgement, what knowledge to make actionable and how to govern the resulting capabilities.
Who it is for
For people who have decisions to make.
Managers
Coordinate people, agents, workflows and memory as a collective capability.
Transformation teams
Build an organisation that learns, beyond a portfolio of isolated use cases.
From the book
The questions behind the technology.
“We have invented machines capable of answering. Now we must become the people capable of understanding what to ask them.”
“AI does not free us from intelligence; it condemns us to it.”
The covers
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Contents
Five movements: understand, observe, design, develop skills, anticipate.
Twenty chapters connecting the history of organisations to active memory, Agent Capital, governance, PAEL and OAEL maturity models, and the horizons of 2030 and 2040.
- Preface — A Magnificent Sentence
- Introduction — When Intelligence Becomes Programmable
- Chapter 1 — The Enterprise as a Coordination System
- Chapter 2 — The Four Ages of Organisation
- Chapter 3 — From Software to Digital Work
- Chapter 4 — Knowledge as Invisible Infrastructure
- Chapter 5 — Weak Signals from the Market
- Chapter 6 — The Emergence of the Hybrid Workforce
- Chapter 7 — The Workplace Is Changing
- Chapter 8 — The Agentic Divide
- Chapter 9 — Anatomy of the Agentic Enterprise
- Chapter 10 — Active Memory
- Chapter 11 — Knowledge Capital and Agent Capital
- Chapter 12 — Workflow Engineering
- Chapter 13 — Human-Agent Teaming
- Chapter 14 — Governance and Risk
- Chapter 15 — Maturity Models
- Chapter 16 — The New Roles
- Chapter 17 — Training for the Agentic Enterprise
- Chapter 18 — Managing in an Agentic Organisation
- Chapter 19 — 2030: Meta-Human, Meta-Team, Meta-Organization
- Chapter 20 — 2040: The Agentic Economy
- Conclusion — The Coordination Revolution
- About the Author
About the author
Samir RINAZ
Samir RINAZ is a French educator, technology leader and adviser to business leaders. He heads ETNA, a French computing school offering work-study programmes, having previously led its academic provision for many years. For nearly twenty years, he has worked at the intersection of technology education, business and innovation, guided by a constant conviction: technologies prove their worth when they transform human and collective capabilities.
Alongside his academic responsibilities, he advises executive committees, C-level leaders and founding teams on technological transformation, organisational models and AI adoption.
His writing seeks less to predict the future than to give leaders, managers and organisational designers the concepts they need to avoid being at its mercy.
The English edition is launching.
The English edition is ready. Amazon purchase links will be added as soon as publication is confirmed. The French edition is already available.