Strategy Stack: Tech Breakdown
👥 Featuring:
Guest: Bora – Global AI Lead at Capgemini, strategist, author of the AI Strategy Manifesto, and digital transformation veteran.
Host: Alex (The Strategy Stack)
Key Discussion Topics
Bora’s Background & Mission
15+ years in digital transformation and enterprise consulting.
Leading AI strategy across a 7,000+ person organization at Capgemini.
Advocating for AI as a business-first, not tech-first, transformation driver.
The AI Strategy Manifesto
Born from frustrations with AI playbooks focused only on tech implementation.
Inspired by Europe's historic mistakes with digital transformation.
A call for holistic, human-first, business-led AI strategy.
Offers principles—not frameworks—to evaluate the depth and direction of enterprise AI efforts.
Europe’s AI Lag & Cultural Factors
Europe’s digital stagnation stems from viewing “digital” as an IT problem.
Cultural reluctance around risk-taking and innovation is a major blocker.
Regulation-first approach risks sidelining Europe in the global AI race.
Suggests bottom-up, national-level momentum to push Brussels toward reform.
Innovation, Governance & Power
US = Invents | China = Scales | Europe = Regulates — but Bora challenges this narrative.
Discusses the global “AI power play” as a mix of geopolitics, chip production, and data access.
Advocates for resurgence of liberalism, human agency, and local experimentation.
Generational Shifts & AI Literacy
Concern over rising “unliteracy” — people capable of reading, choosing not to.
AI compresses the gap between signal and decision, but may weaken critical thinking.
Reflections on Gen Z’s media habits, data awareness, and a hopeful counterculture.
The Future: Ownership, Data & Identity
Hope for a future with user-owned data, wallets, and AI agents acting on our behalf.
Web3 and AI convergence could unlock a new era of personal sovereignty.
The return of national identity and values in tech development isn’t regression—it’s rebalancing.
💡 Takeaways
From Alex:
AI shortens the distance between signal and decision, but depth of thought is still essential.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast... and demography eats culture—the youth will shape AI’s meaning.
Innovation is structural as much as technical—Europe needs more ambition, not more rules.
From Bora:
Europe risks repeating its digital failures with AI by treating it as “IT with steroids.”
AI isn’t just a cost-cutter—it’s a strategic enabler of new business models.
We need a grassroots reawakening of liberal values, cultural courage, and regulatory sanity.
Learning without reflection is hollow—books, discussion, and writing are more vital than ever.
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