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Writer CEO Says Organizational Change Is Enterprise AI's Biggest Hurdle, Wins VivaTech Award

June 19, 2026 at 11:49 EDT

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Writer Co-Founder and CEO May Habib received the Rising Star Award at the VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards held alongside VivaTech 2026 in Paris, saying the biggest hurdle for enterprise generative AI is no longer the pilot stage but reorganizing how companies themselves are set up to use AI.

June 18, 2026 · VivaTech × Bloomberg Awards, Paris

The Next Wall for Enterprise AI Isn't the Pilot — It's the Org Chart

Writer CEO May Habib, accepting the Rising Star Award, says the real hurdle is no longer launching generative-AI pilots but reorganizing companies — and finding the talent — to orchestrate AI agents across multi-step work.

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The hurdle after the pilot

"Most organizations lack the talent to orchestrate AI agents across multi-step tasks." The next wall is organizational, not technical.

Org redesign → Talent for agent orchestration → Process change

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In-house talent gap for orchestration
Process change remains a lingering hurdle

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