By Abhinav Singh
Publication Date: 2026-10-13 07:37:00
Eighty per cent of Indian executives expect Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive revenues by 2030. Many of them are currently struggling with what type of new business models they can create and bring to life using AI, and whether they operate AI safely and reliably. There’s a real divide between those that are rebuilding AI and agents that basically are going to change how companies and how business models operate. Technology often is not the hard part. It is how you get business models and people to adopt it. It requires a new operating model for AI. These observations were made by Hans Dekkers, General Manager of IBM Asia Pacific during the IBM Think event in Mumbai.
He said that IBM has been thinking about it and is working with its clients, and has created a definitive playbook and calls it the AI operating model. “It all starts with the data, which translates into intelligence. The intelligence translates into action, and the action will influence one’s operations,” said…



