DATA & ANALYTICS knew but never wrote down. Business intent is not just strategy documents and KPIs. It is the living context that experienced people carry in their heads and currently have no structured way to feed back into the systems acting on the company’ s behalf.
Q. IS THE RUSH TO DEPLOY AUTONOMOUS AGENTS WITHOUT PROPER CONTEXTUAL GOVERNANCE CAUSING ENTERPRISES TO WASTE MONEY ON AI SYSTEMS?
» I would frame it less as waste and more as a structural mismatch. Enterprises spent heavily on experimentation, and a lot of it was fragmented. Individual teams built their own things, connected their own data. Some produced real results. A lot produced results impossible to scale or govern.
“THE AGENT JUST KEEPS GOING, EXECUTING CONFIDENTLY ON A TRUTH THAT STOPPED BEING TRUE SOME TIME AGO”
Josh Fecteau Chief Data & AI Officer and Chief Information Officer Teradata
130 October 2026