Strategy Summit 2026: Why AI Transformation Needs a Human Touch
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Turn breakthrough ideas into real results at the virtual HBR Innovation Summit this November with top CEOs and masterclasses on AI and growth. Register by September 30th and save 25%. Learn more at hbr.org slash innovation summit. I'm Adi Ignatius and this is the HBR Idea cast. A few weeks ago, Harvard Business Review hosted a day-long event looking at the cutting edge of strategy research and practice, the HBRI
HBR Strategy Summit 2026. The day was filled with expert advice and guidance from both executives and academics, and for the next four Thursdays, we'll be sharing some of the best conversations with you on Ideacast. First up, a conversation between HBR editor-in-chief Amy Bernstein and Nigel Voz, the CEO of Publicis Sapient. The company is in the digital transformation business, helping organizations modernize and adopt artificial intelligence to their existing models. That means he has had a front row seat to digital transformation at all kinds of organizations, and he shared his thought on what companies really need to do now around AI before it's too late.
You'll hear him argue why AI should be thought of as an operating system, not a tool, how linear thinking is holding leaders back, and the most exciting opportunities he sees AI offering now. Here is that conversation between Amy Bernstein and Nigel Fas. You have had a ringside seat for strategy making all over the place, all over the world, many different kinds of companies. You have been doing it for years, so you have the long view. How has AI affected all of that, all the strategy making, all the thinking about strategy?
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