Tiankai Feng on why your AI strategy is failing (and what to do about it)
Mon Dec 15 2025
Tiankai Feng wrote Humanizing AI Strategy because almost no one else is talking about the human behaviors that determine whether AI implementations succeed or fail. Everyone's focused on architecture and capabilities while ignoring the organizational dysfunction that sinks these projects.
We covered his five Cs framework and how it applies differently to AI than data strategy, why competence now means wise delegation rather than just adoption, and what happens when AI only learns from AI-generated output. He also explained why data analysts might end up doing more backend infrastructure work than they expect, and what human habit he'd delete from the codebase if he could.
Full writeup and insights here: [blog post link]
We're giving away five copies of the book. React to the LinkedIn post to enter.
#AI #AIStrategy #DataStrategy #Martech #OrganizationalChange #CustomerDataPlatform #DataAnalytics
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Tiankai Feng wrote Humanizing AI Strategy because almost no one else is talking about the human behaviors that determine whether AI implementations succeed or fail. Everyone's focused on architecture and capabilities while ignoring the organizational dysfunction that sinks these projects. We covered his five Cs framework and how it applies differently to AI than data strategy, why competence now means wise delegation rather than just adoption, and what happens when AI only learns from AI-generated output. He also explained why data analysts might end up doing more backend infrastructure work than they expect, and what human habit he'd delete from the codebase if he could. Full writeup and insights here: [blog post link] We're giving away five copies of the book. React to the LinkedIn post to enter. #AI #AIStrategy #DataStrategy #Martech #OrganizationalChange #CustomerDataPlatform #DataAnalytics