External signal·MIT Sloan Management Review (with Boston Consulting Group)·Nov 1, 2025·Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron, Shervin Khodabandeh, Shaheer Iyer, and Abhishek Das
The Emerging Agentic Enterprise: How Leaders Must Navigate a New Age of AI
Summary
This MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group report tracks the rapid uptake of agentic AI, defined as systems that can plan, act, and learn autonomously rather than waiting for instructions. It finds that agentic AI has reached 35% adoption in roughly two years, with another 44% of organizations planning to deploy it soon, a pace faster than generative AI (70% in three years) and traditional AI (72% over eight years). The report argues that organizations gaining advantage from agentic AI must navigate four distinct tensions and rethink how work is designed. It frames the shift as a leadership and organizational-design challenge rather than a purely technical one.
Predictions for the future of work
The report predicts that agentic AI will require organizations to redesign work itself as autonomous systems take on tasks previously done by people, creating an increasingly hybrid human-AI workforce. It anticipates continued steep adoption growth (from 35% toward the additional 44% planning deployment) and expects leaders to confront unresolved tensions around control, oversight, and accountability. The affected population is broad across knowledge-work functions, with near-term deployment expectations, and the emphasis is on leaders adapting management and work design rather than on specific job-loss figures.
Originally published by MIT Sloan Management Review (with Boston Consulting Group) · Nov 1, 2025
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