The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem
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Apr 18, 2026 Evangelos Simoudis, seasoned technology and AI strategist, shares sharp views on how enterprises organize AI. He explores conflicts between top-down governance and bottom-up innovation. He outlines when committees help or hinder, recommends multidisciplinary AI pods, and discusses brand risks and SEO-like tactics to make content discoverable by AI agents.
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Create Cross Functional AI Innovation Pods
- Build small cross-functional pods combining business, IT, and HR instead of top-down committees.
- Evangelos recommends ambidextrous innovation pods where business leads, IT, and HR work together without silos to align mission and skills.
Use HR To Map Real AI Skills
- Involve HR early to assess skills, process changes, and avoid inflated internal claims of AI expertise.
- Evangelos highlights frequent perception-reality gaps in AI talent and HR helps map true strengths and reskilling needs.
Centralized Gates Trade Speed For Control
- Centralized gatekeeper committees can block pilots and slow knowledge sharing; bottom-up approaches move faster but risk duplication.
- Evangelos compares this to early SaaS shadow purchases and warns AI stakes are higher as systems become actionable.