Book — Publishing 2026

The Executive's Playbook

Name: The Executive's Playbook
Author: Delphin Barankanira

A field guide for enterprise AI leaders — frameworks, case studies, and the operating-model decisions that determine whether AI investment compounds or stalls.

—How to move from AI experimentation to operational scale without disrupting what already works
—The governance and operating-model decisions that separate compounding AI investments from stalled ones
—Frameworks drawn from real enterprise transformations — not benchmarks or lab results

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What's inside

Eight chapters. One operating model.

1. The Tiered Autonomy Model
A decision framework for classifying AI workloads by required human oversight — the first choice that determines everything downstream in an AI transformation.
2. AgentOps: Running AI at Production Scale
The operational discipline behind deploying and monitoring autonomous agents in enterprise environments — reliability, observability, and rollback without a lab team on call.
3. Goal Vectors: Aligning AI to Strategy
How to translate board-level strategic intent into measurable AI objectives that survive contact with the messy reality of enterprise data and incentives.
4. The Governance Layer
The policies, roles, and review mechanisms that let AI move fast without accumulating regulatory and reputational debt — drawn from regulated-industry deployments.

Four additional chapters publishing through Q3 2026. Join the waitlist for chapter drops.

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About the author

Delphin Barankanira

Agentic AI Partner Strategy Lead at Google Cloud EMEA. He works with executive teams — boards, CIOs, CTOs, Chief AI Officers — moving large organisations from AI experimentation to operational scale. The work spans foundation-model strategy, partner ecosystems, enterprise architecture, and the operating-model decisions that determine whether AI investment compounds or stalls. Executive MBA from HEC Paris; Master's in Artificial Intelligence. Five international patents from Orange Labs. Named to the Google Cloud Club in 2024 and 2025.

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