The Digital Transformation Playbook
Kieran Gilmurray is a globally recognised authority on Artificial Intelligence, intelligent automation, data analytics, agentic AI, leadership development and digital transformation.
He has authored four influential books and hundreds of articles that have shaped industry perspectives on digital transformation, data analytics, intelligent automation, agentic AI, leadership and artificial intelligence.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 does Kieran do❓
When Kieran is not chairing international conferences, serving as a fractional CTO or Chief AI Officer, he is delivering AI, leadership, and strategy masterclasses to governments and industry leaders.
His team global businesses drive AI, agentic ai, digital transformation, leadership and innovation programs that deliver tangible business results.
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🔹Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Agentic AI 2025
🔹Top 100 Thought Leader Agentic AI 2025
🔹Top 100 Thought Leader Legal AI 2025
🔹Team of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards
🔹Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Generative AI 2024
🔹Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Manufacturing 2024
🔹Best LinkedIn Influencers Artificial Intelligence and Marketing 2024
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🔹Top 14 people to follow in data in 2023.
🔹World's Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators.
🔹Top 50 Intelligent Automation Influencers.
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🔹Global Intelligent Automation Award Winner.
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Episodes
270 episodes
Why AI Adoption Is Missing This Critical Piece | IBM Partner Plus
#IBMPartner Generative AI is easy to try and hard to run safely. If you’ve ever watched a brilliant demo fall apart when it hits real data, real users, and real governance, this conversation is for you. We sit down with
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The Capability Trap
Most organisations now have access to AI, but access alone rarely creates dependable performance. This episode examines why usage, training, and experimentation often mask deeper gaps in organisational readiness.It explores the Capabilit...
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Why Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects May Fail
More than 40% of agentic AI projects may be cancelled by 2027, with cost, unclear value, and weak controls driving many failures. The central challenge lies in turning promising demonstrations into accountable, scalable operating models....
Chapter 1: The Rise of Self-Driving AI: How Autonomous Agents Are Reshaping Work
AI has moved from answering questions to taking actions, and that single shift changes everything. The first chapter in my book 'Agentic AI: A Business Leader’s Guide to the Future of Work and Digital Labour' unpacks the rise of aut...
Steering AI Is Now Part of the Executive’s Job
AI fluency has moved from optional skill to executive responsibility. This episode looks at why leaders must steer AI as a business system, setting direction, design, guardrails, and proof.It explores the gap between AI ambition, leaders...
Stop Celebrating The Hero And Start Hiring The Team
You can hear it in the way people talk about work right now: everything is urgent, everyone is stretched, and “high performance” has quietly become shorthand for constant output. We take a different angle by starting with a running truth that’s...
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AI Does Not Scale Through Tools. It Scales Through Work
AI adoption is moving quickly, yet enterprise value remains uneven when tools are added without changing how work flows. This episode examines why scalable AI performance depends on workflow redesign, clear ownership, and stronger execution sys...
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Discussing AI Is Not the Same as Governing It
AI has moved from innovation briefing to board-level responsibility, affecting strategy, risk, disclosure and enterprise value at the same time. This episode examines why directors must shift from discussing AI to actively governing it as regul...
Reshape the Work Before You Reduce the Workforce
AI is forcing leaders to rethink work before they make irreversible workforce decisions. This episode challenges the headcount-first response to automation and explains why value depends on redesigning how work flows.It explores how AI c...
Middle Management Meltdown: Are They Breaking?
Middle managers get blamed for everything, yet we keep setting them up to fail. Kieran Gilmurray and
Who Owns AI?
AI ownership often looks clear in meetings, then breaks down when decisions move into real workflows. This episode examines why fragmented authority turns promising pilots into slow, duplicated, and politically complex AI programmes across the ...
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Is HR Obsolete?
“HR is irrelevant and AI will replace it” is the sort of claim that gets repeated until it feels true. We slow it down and ask a better question: if the admin and compliance bits are automated, what should a modern people function actually do t...
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Hiring In The Age Of AI
AI is speeding up work, squeezing budgets, and quietly removing the “starter tasks” that used to train new hires. So the real question is not just whether we should hire graduates, but how anyone builds experience when AI can draft, summarise, ...
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Why Faster AI Answers Can Make You Learn Less
Frictionless AI feels like a miracle: one prompt, instant answers, spotless work. But when we use large language models for learning, that same “no effort” design can become a trap. Google Notebook LM agents break down the learning ...
The Human AI Operating System
AI scale depends on more than access to models, pilots, or new tools. This episode examines why enterprise performance comes from designing the organisation around AI, rather than simply deploying technology into existing workflows.It ex...
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PegaWorld 2026: The Year Agentic AI Had To Prove Itself
Enterprise AI has entered a more demanding phase, where agentic systems must prove they can deliver predictable outcomes in real business operations. PegaWorld 2026 framed that shift around workflow discipline, cost control, governance, and ent...
The AI Risk Posture Playbook for Boards
Artificial intelligence is now a board level risk with implications across strategy, operations, and reputation. Organisations must move from informal awareness to structured oversight to manage AI responsibly.This episode explores how b...
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Why AI Strategies Fail Before They Scale
AI strategies often lose momentum when organisations move from pilots into real operating environments. Early progress can look convincing until ownership, governance, capability, workflow design, and value measurement are tested at scale.<...
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Why Your AI Focus Group Keeps Saying Three
You spend years building a product, polish the packaging, nail the pitch… then you hit the terrifying question: is anyone actually going to buy it? We dig into a 2025 research result from PyMC Labs and Colgate-Palmolive that aims straight at th...
AI-First Strategy at Scale: Pega's Roadmap with David Vidoni
Token subsidies are fading, AI prices are rising, and suddenly the fun part of experimentation comes with a nasty surprise: runaway spend. We dig into what that shift means for CIOs and IT leaders who still need to ship results, protect budgets...
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Enterprise AI Will Not Scale Until You Redesign Work
Your AI can write a tidy email summary, but that is not the job. The real leap is from passive text generation to agentic AI that can read context, plan a sequence of steps, use tools through APIs, and execute actions inside real enterprise sys...
Kieran Gilmurray x Matt Healy: The Reality of Agentic AI
AI is moving fast, but enterprise leaders are starting to ask a sharper question: are we getting value for the money we’re spending? Matt Healy from Pega joins us to unpack what “agentic transformation” looks like when it has to survive real-wo...
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Behind the Scenes at PegaWorld: A Conversation with Kara Manton
Legacy systems do not fail because teams lack ambition. They fail because nobody has the time to untangle years of code, edge cases and hidden business logic. We sit down with Kara Manton, business director in Pega’s product engineering functio...
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The Powerful Strategic Subtraction Test for Smarter Decisions
AI can accelerate work, but it can also multiply clutter when obsolete processes stay in place. This episode examines strategic subtraction as a leadership discipline for improving AI value, capacity, and operating focus.It explores how ...
AI’s Impact on Junior Productivity and Skill Development
AI is dramatically reshaping how junior professionals learn and perform at work. New evidence shows novices reaching competency in a fraction of the time, with significant implications for productivity and talent development.This episode...
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