Debashish Sarkar's Blogs

  The Hardest Part of AI Transformation Isn’t the AI After twenty years and dozens of programmes, the technology was almost never the thing that decided success.   I have spent two decades leading transformation across the UK, India, and the Gulf, through waves of technology that each arrived promising to change everything. AI is the most powerful of those waves. But if you asked me what actually decided whether a programme succeeded or quietly died, my honest answer would rarely be the technology. It was almost always the people. The fear, the fatigue, the politics, the unspoken resistance in the room. The hardest part of AI transformation is human, and we under invest in it because it doesn’t fit neatly on a Gantt chart. The programme that nearly failed for no technical reason I remember a programme where every technical indicator was green. The architecture was sound, the early results were strong, the business case held. And it was dying. Not because anythi...