A Practical Guide to Agentic AI Transition in Organizations

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Auteurs principaux: Bandara, Eranga, Gore, Ross, Shetty, Sachin, Rajapakse, Sachini, Kularathna, Isurunima, Karunarathna, Pramoda, Mukkamala, Ravi, Foytik, Peter, Bouk, Safdar H., Rahman, Abdul, Liang, Xueping, Hass, Amin, Hewa, Tharaka, Keong, Ng Wee, De Zoysa, Kasun, Withanage, Aruna, Loganathan, Nilaan
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author Bandara, Eranga
Gore, Ross
Shetty, Sachin
Rajapakse, Sachini
Kularathna, Isurunima
Karunarathna, Pramoda
Mukkamala, Ravi
Foytik, Peter
Bouk, Safdar H.
Rahman, Abdul
Liang, Xueping
Hass, Amin
Hewa, Tharaka
Keong, Ng Wee
De Zoysa, Kasun
Withanage, Aruna
Loganathan, Nilaan
author_facet Bandara, Eranga
Gore, Ross
Shetty, Sachin
Rajapakse, Sachini
Kularathna, Isurunima
Karunarathna, Pramoda
Mukkamala, Ravi
Foytik, Peter
Bouk, Safdar H.
Rahman, Abdul
Liang, Xueping
Hass, Amin
Hewa, Tharaka
Keong, Ng Wee
De Zoysa, Kasun
Withanage, Aruna
Loganathan, Nilaan
contents Agentic AI represents a significant shift in how intelligence is applied within organizations, moving beyond AI-assisted tools toward autonomous systems capable of reasoning, decision-making, and coordinated action across workflows. As these systems mature, they have the potential to automate a substantial share of manual organizational processes, fundamentally reshaping how work is designed, executed, and governed. Although many organizations have adopted AI to improve productivity, most implementations remain limited to isolated use cases and human-centered, tool-driven workflows. Despite increasing awareness of agentic AI's strategic importance, engineering teams and organizational leaders often lack clear guidance on how to operationalize it effectively. Key challenges include an overreliance on traditional software engineering practices, limited integration of business-domain knowledge, unclear ownership of AI-driven workflows, and the absence of sustainable human-AI collaboration models. Consequently, organizations struggle to move beyond experimentation, scale agentic systems, and align them with tangible business value. Drawing on practical experience in designing and deploying agentic AI workflows across multiple organizations and business domains, this paper proposes a pragmatic framework for transitioning organizational functions from manual processes to automated agentic AI systems. The framework emphasizes domain-driven use case identification, systematic delegation of tasks to AI agents, AI-assisted construction of agentic workflows, and small, AI-augmented teams working closely with business stakeholders. Central to the approach is a human-in-the-loop operating model in which individuals act as orchestrators of multiple AI agents, enabling scalable automation while maintaining oversight, adaptability, and organizational control.
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Bandara, Eranga
Gore, Ross
Shetty, Sachin
Rajapakse, Sachini
Kularathna, Isurunima
Karunarathna, Pramoda
Mukkamala, Ravi
Foytik, Peter
Bouk, Safdar H.
Rahman, Abdul
Liang, Xueping
Hass, Amin
Hewa, Tharaka
Keong, Ng Wee
De Zoysa, Kasun
Withanage, Aruna
Loganathan, Nilaan
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Agentic AI represents a significant shift in how intelligence is applied within organizations, moving beyond AI-assisted tools toward autonomous systems capable of reasoning, decision-making, and coordinated action across workflows. As these systems mature, they have the potential to automate a substantial share of manual organizational processes, fundamentally reshaping how work is designed, executed, and governed. Although many organizations have adopted AI to improve productivity, most implementations remain limited to isolated use cases and human-centered, tool-driven workflows. Despite increasing awareness of agentic AI's strategic importance, engineering teams and organizational leaders often lack clear guidance on how to operationalize it effectively. Key challenges include an overreliance on traditional software engineering practices, limited integration of business-domain knowledge, unclear ownership of AI-driven workflows, and the absence of sustainable human-AI collaboration models. Consequently, organizations struggle to move beyond experimentation, scale agentic systems, and align them with tangible business value. Drawing on practical experience in designing and deploying agentic AI workflows across multiple organizations and business domains, this paper proposes a pragmatic framework for transitioning organizational functions from manual processes to automated agentic AI systems. The framework emphasizes domain-driven use case identification, systematic delegation of tasks to AI agents, AI-assisted construction of agentic workflows, and small, AI-augmented teams working closely with business stakeholders. Central to the approach is a human-in-the-loop operating model in which individuals act as orchestrators of multiple AI agents, enabling scalable automation while maintaining oversight, adaptability, and organizational control.
title A Practical Guide to Agentic AI Transition in Organizations
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10122