You Are About to Hire a VP of AI Capability. Do Not.

You diagnosed the CoE pattern. Now you are about to repeat it by hiring a VP of AI Capability. Here is why forcing your organization to build the competency itself is the only path that works, why it will be rough, and what the end state looks like when you get it right.

I wrote recently about the VP of Agile Transformation who got a fifteen-year service award while the organization still could not release without a change advisory board meeting. A lot of people read that article. A lot of people sent it to their CTO. And then a few of those CTOs did the thing I was afraid they would do.