AI Agents: The Silent Revolution in Consulting Firms
In the hushed world of strategy and technology consulting, a revolution is underway. It makes no noise, but it profoundly reshapes the relationships between companies, their data, and intelligence. This revolution is that of AI agents—autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, memorizing, and interacting to accomplish complex tasks, far beyond simple chatbots or assistants. According...
Data & AI, a magical duo: what leaders really need to steer
FCE Nice conference "Data & AI, a magical duo", hosted by Flora Debrosses, with Didier Aït (Optim'ease), Audrey Lamy-Martinot (Data Acteur) and Arnaud Pinte (iPepper). The room is packed. The desire for clarity prevails. Flora Debrosses opens the evening with a simple observation: artificial intelligence has no consciousness. It imitates. It computes. It assists. The...
EDF and Generative AI: Scaling Up a Critical Industrial Group
On January 27, 2026, ZDNet revealed a milestone rarely achieved in France. EDF opened an internal generative AI portal to approximately 160,000 employees, multi-LLM, presented as "sovereign," operated in a private environment and designed to industrialize more than 400 business use cases. Behind the announcement, a more structural question emerges: what does "adopting AI" mean...
BPCE and AI: From Cautious Experimentation to Industrial Strategy
In less than two years, BPCE has shifted from a defensive control posture to a logic of gradual industrialization of generative AI, anchored to its Vision 2030 strategic plan. The challenge is not merely technological. It is organizational, social, regulatory and, above all, economic. The group claims massive adoption of assistants, while maintaining marked caution...
The Turning Point for Responsible AI: When Governance Becomes a Lever for Innovation
Behind the explosion of use cases related to artificial intelligence, a paradox is emerging. While AI's promises multiply—increased productivity, large-scale personalization, new frontiers of automation—responsible practices struggle to keep pace. The World Economic Forum (WEF), in partnership with Accenture, sounds the alarm in its latest playbook: less than 1% of organizations have fully operationalized responsible...
Not All Data Is Created Equal: Artificial Intelligence Is No Excuse for Mediocrity
The observation is now shared by data departments, business units, and software vendors: the era of massive accumulation is over. In AI systems, raw data no longer has value in itself. It must be structured, qualified, governed, and situated within a precise context of use. Two converging perspectives demonstrate this: the DQE white paper on...