Partha Iyengar's Cookbook for Building Future-Ready Enterprises

Partha Iyengar, Consultant and Ex-Gartner Fellow, outlines a practical 'Al Cookbook' to guide enterprises from pilots to production.

- By Musharrat Shahin

"IT'S NOT the strongest or the most intelligent that survive; it's the ones most adaptable to change," said Partha Iyengar, Consultant, ExGartner Fellow, and former Country Manager of Research, invoking Darwin to frame the corporate challenge of artificial intelligence. In a keynote that was equal parts playbook and provocation, Iyengar outlined a "management cookbook" for AI adoption- a step-by-step recipe to move beyond hype, pilots, and isolated projects toward truly resilient, future-ready organizations.

The Al Foundation: Readiness Before Ambition

Iyengar argued that the first step in AI success is not strategy decks, but organizational readiness. Leaders, he cautioned, must be literate in AI, not at the “airline magazine syndrome” level of hype, but with a realistic grasp of risks and possibilities. Enterprises must also adopt a “try fast, fail fast” mindset, promote digital dexterity across business units, and align their cultures with startup-style agility.