0845_Mohan.pptx

1、FROM DATA FOUNDATIONSto Agentic AI,Trends,Predictions&the ArchitectureShaping the Next Era of Enterprise Data,Sanjeev Mohan Principal Analyst,SanjMo 2026,About Sanjeev Mohan,Independent advisor at the intersection of data,analytics,and AI,ROLE,SanjMo,Independent boutique data&AI advisory firm.Former

2、 VP Research at Gartner,hosting the It Depends podcast.,CLIENTS,Industry Leaders,IBM Snowflake ServiceNow MongoDB Google Cloud research,frameworks,and Magic Quadrant advisory.,AUTHOR,Books&Frameworks,Data Products for Dummies Designing AI-Driven Data Foundations(Wiley,2026).,It Depends Podcast,AI Is

3、 Here.ROI Will Lag.,Historys pattern:gains arrive after the rebuild,ELECTRICITY,1890s 1920s,30 yrs,Motors installed for decades.Productivity moved only after factories were rebuilt around them.,AUTOMOBILE,1903 1930s,25 yrs,Sold for transport.Farmers used it to plow fields.Tractors arrived after the

4、kit stage.,IT,1970s 1990s,20 yrs,Solows paradox.Gains arrived only after firms flattened and rebuilt workflows.,The lag is not a reason to wait.It is the work.,The architecture you choose during the lag determines whether your firm leads or trails the eventual productivity wave.,Weve Always Underest

5、imated New Tech,The smartest people in the room get it wrong,often by orders of magnitude,TIME,April 2,1965,1980 McKinsey advises AT&T on mobile phones,Forecast:900,000 subscribers by 2000.,Actual:109 million.Off by two orders of magnitude.AT&T later paid$12.6B for McCaw Cellular to recover.,1943 At

6、tributed to IBMs Thomas Watson,World market for maybe five computers.,Likely apocryphal.But it stuck because the underestimation pattern is real,repeated,and rarely punished in the moment.,But this time its different,they say its cognitive,Agenda,Six domains reshaping enterprise data&AI,01,Foundatio