The Real Cause of AI Failure
Broadcast Date: March 19th, 2026
It’s often not the model, the data, or even the technology. The failure rate of AI initiatives mostly stems from organizational friction. That’s good news, because it should be fairly easy to solve. So says Sarang Bapat, a seasoned SVP of Data and Analytics, who crafted a heartfelt methodology that can energize your team, and breathe life into your AI initiatives.
Register for this DM Radio Virtual Summit to learn how a simple thought experiement can supercharge your Data and AI Initiatives. Bapat will demonstrate how he leads teams with an intutive balance of three equally critical components:
- Head — defining the right business idea or use case by working with subject matter experts who have strong domain experience and insights;
- Hands — translating that idea into a technically sound, scalable solution, ideally leveraging existing infrastructure; and,
- Heart — championing, communicating, and democratizing the capability so it’s adopted throughout the organization.
Sustainable impact happens only when Head, Hands, and Heart work together, when business-led ideas are built with rigor and actively socialized, trusted, and reused across teams. That’s when data initiatives stop being experiments and start becoming enterprise capabilities that drive productivity, simplify processes, and improve customer and employee experiences at scale.
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
CEO at The Bloor Group
Eric has nearly 30 years of experience as a career journalist with a keen focus on enterprise technologies. He designs and moderates a variety of New Media programs, including The Briefing Room, DM Radio and Espresso Series, as well as GARP’s Leadership and Research Webcasts. His mission is to help people leverage the power of software, methodologies and politics in order to get things done.
Guests:
Sarang Bapat
Director of Data Engineering of United Airlines
