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The Corporate Life – Billion Dollar Conversations | Cinematic Stories of Tech CEOs, Multimillion-Dollar Entrepreneurs, and Leading Investors
Manuel Barragan: Why AI Is Scaling Your Problems - Not Solving Them
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Most companies chasing AI transformation are doing it in the wrong order. Manuel Barragan spent 20+ years inside organisations like Reuters and HSBC before building his own consultancy - and what he learned is this: technology cannot fix broken people and broken processes. It can only run them faster.
What You Will Learn
How to identify whether your company is truly transforming or just adding tools to existing dysfunction
Why putting technology before people is the single most expensive mistake in digital transformation
What AI governance actually means - and why ignoring it is exposing your company's data to the world
How to close the AI literacy gap inside your organisation before it becomes a competitive liability
Why the conductor, the musicians, and the instruments all have to be ready before the concert begins
Timestamps
01:30 — From Reuters CTO to Regional CEO: What 20 Years Inside the Giants Taught Him
08:15 — Why "We're Transforming" Is the Biggest Lie in Business Right Now
10:18 — The AI Hype Trap: Why It's the Same Mistake Companies Made with SAP
14:16 — Data Governance & AI Literacy: The Hidden Risk Destroying Companies From the Inside
21:06 — This or That: Corporate World vs Entrepreneurship, AI Liberates or Replaces, and More
About the Guest
Manuel Barragan is a fractional executive and digital transformation strategist with 20+ years of leadership across Reuters, HSBC, Marsh, IBM, and multiple CEO and Managing Director roles across Latin America. His firm, DTS Strategist, works with corporations and SMEs to fix the people and process foundations that determine whether technology investments succeed or fail. He is currently writing a book on navigating digital transformation through the human lens.
Connect with Manuel
LinkedIn: Manuel Barragan
Website: www.dtstrategist.com
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