AI's organizational debt
Why 87% of AI projects never reach production — and why the cause isn't technical but structural. What agentic AI reveals about organizations.
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Press & media
The Operating Shift is an independent magazine founded by Anthony Capirchio. This page gathers everything useful for journalists, podcasters and event organizers.
Short bio
Anthony Capirchio is the founder of The Operating Shift, a quarterly magazine on the failure of AI transformations. For more than ten years he has worked on digital and AI transformation programs in public and private organizations.
His thesis: AI models are not what fail — organizations are. Organizational debt — exhausted middle management, opaque processes, slow governance — is the real bottleneck of enterprise AI.
He publishes weekly editorials and analyses read by executives, CIOs, consultants and researchers across French and English-speaking audiences.
Expert angles
Three subjects on which I'm available for interviews, signed op-eds or speaking engagements:
Middle management as operating system
Why AI transformations collapse at the middle-management layer — and how to treat it as a structural lever rather than a relay.
Agentic infrastructure and the end of the interface
Why vendors going agentic (Salesforce Headless, IBM, etc.) shift the core skill from screen design to semantic contract architecture.
Engagement formats
Available in English and French, mostly Paris or remote. Formats I can contribute to:
- Written or recorded interview (30-45 min)
- Signed op-ed (700-900 words, delivered within 5 days of brief)
- Podcast or panel intervention
- Keynote or workshop for executive committees (45-90 min)
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