HOW-TO Manage the Agentic Enterprise

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HOW-TO Manage the Agentic Enterprise

Providing the Structured Foundation Agentic AI Requires to Deliver Workforce Productivity

Executive Summary

A December 2025 Harvard Business Review Analytic Services briefing paper, “The Agentic Enterprise: Elevating Workforce Productivity Through Human-AI Collaboration,” sponsored by Hyland, reaches a conclusion that should reshape how every manufacturing, services, and process-intensive organization approaches artificial intelligence (AI): agentic AI initiatives do not stall for lack of data or tools. They stall because organizations lack a cohesive, governed foundation that allows AI agents to understand enterprise context - how documents, workflows, and decisions relate to one another at any given moment.

That finding validates, almost point for point, the structural premise behind the Integrated Process Excellence℠ (IPE) process deployment framework. IPE was built to give organizations exactly what the HBR research says agentic AI now requires: structured information architecture, governed accountability, and processes documented down to the activity and element level so that both people and intelligent agents can act with shared context.

This paper walks through the central findings of the HBR/Hyland briefing paper and explains, section by section, how the IPE process deployment framework and IPE Packs directly address each gap - fragmented context, ungoverned autonomy, unclear accountability, and the persistent reliance on standalone AI tools rather than embedded, governed workflows.

 

For the complete paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JQkmTayidg_T8HOdHPXUSFMuaYvGgRFT/view