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Arvind Shankar

Arvind Shankar

Vice President – Global Business Process Transformation (GBS) at Reckitt; global business transformation leader specializing in GCCs and GBS.

Aug 6, 2026

6:48
Uh, so as AI become more and more embedded into workflows, how do organizations actually move, say, beyond isolated AI initiatives to build enterprise-wide orchestration capabilities that really create business value?
7:02
I think the pilot problem or the pilot issue is a real issue.
7:06
Uh, every organization that I know of has lots of proof of concepts and pilots.
7:12
Most of them don't scale, and the issue usually is not technology, it is about the operating model around the technology.
7:21
So I look at AI maturity the same way as the evolution of a GBS across the-- over the years, right? Where it moves from, uh, activity to process to outcomes, right? And in HFS own words, to a generative business services, right? So in AI also, I see the same evolution where you automate tasks first, then you move to a process, end-to-end process orchestration, and then you move to an autonomous AI agent-based workflow where it, it is orchestrating outcomes across the entire organization and across functions.
7:58
The-- In our experience in deploying AI at scale across functions, what we found is that organizations don't move straight to a, to a agentic operating model.
8:09
You first start with a deterministic model where you build governance, you build trust, you build reliability before you move to reusable agents.
10:10
So how does the operating model need to change when success is measured not by process KPIs, but by business outcomes? Any examples you want to share would also be useful.

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