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Who Owns the Agent Once It Can Act?

The Digital Transformation Playbook

Chapters
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When AI Starts Taking Action
1:31
Why Old Ownership Models Break
2:53
The Four Owners Every Agent Needs
4:33
Decision Rights And Autonomy Boundaries
5:32
Making Governance Fast And Real
6:44
Measuring Value Inside The Workflow
7:52
Failure, Accountability, And Stop Buttons
9:08
A Practical Playbook To Implement
10:13
The Leadership Choice And Closing
The Digital Transformation Playbook
Who Owns the Agent Once It Can Act?
May 19, 2026
Kieran Gilmurray

AI agents are moving beyond content generation into enterprise action. As they enter workflows, approvals, systems, and decisions, ownership becomes a strategic governance issue.

This episode explores how leaders should define accountability before agent autonomy scales.

TLDR / At a Glance

• Agentic AI as workflow actor
• Limits of traditional ownership models
• Four ownership layers
• Decision rights and autonomy boundaries
• Governance through distributed accountability
• Value, risk, and intervention rights

The key takeaway is that agentic AI can only scale responsibly when organisations clearly assign ownership for the system, workflow, risk, value, and authority to intervene.

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