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Convergence.fmAuthor: Ashok Sivanand
Welcome to the Convergence podcast! I'm Ashok Sivanand and I've created the Convergence podcast to help you build the most engaged product teams who can ship the most successful products. My passion for products and timing stems from a combination of my working in Japanese manufacturing, building IoT software products for lean manufacturers, and working at industry powerhouses in product like Pivotal Labs. This passion led to founding Integral in 2017, a product engineering consultancy that enables our clients to harness technology to develop better products, grow their revenue streams, and enable new business models. We've had the pleasure to collaborate with brands like Ford, Honda, Rocket Mortgage, Airstream, and Bosch to enable their teams and build some amazing products in artificial intelligence, cloud, mobile, and web. On the Convergence podcast, I'll be speaking with industry leaders, as well as sharing insights from my team on deconstructing the best practices, principles, and philosophies that lead to building the best product teams. If you're a chief product officer, a chief technology officer, or a VP of engineering, or you're growing towards one of those roles, I highly recommend you subscribe to the Convergence Podcast and get some of the insights that will help you lead your product teams and enable them to consistently ideate, validate and ship products that your customers love. Products that will help you grow your business. Thanks a lot for listening. Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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How CEOs Can Play AI Offense (Stop Delegating Your Strategy)
Friday, 10 April, 2026
Stop treating AI as a sales shortcut and start redesigning your business from the ground up to survive the fastest technology adoption in history. In this episode, Ashok Shivanand deconstructs a recent workshop with veteran CEOs to reveal why so many established leaders are struggling with an AI confidence gap. We explore the dangerous instinct to "wait and see" and why delegating AI to your "defensive" executive team could be a terminal mistake for your operations. In this episode: The Redesign Imperative: Why the electric motor failed to increase factory output for 30 years and how that applies to your AI implementation today. Frontier Tools vs. Copilot: Why Microsoft Copilot might be limiting your team's vision and why you need to provide access to Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. Playing Offense: How to identify "champions" in your organization to build a nucleus for institutional AI capability. The "Context First" Prompt: A simple, practical instruction that transforms AI from a basic search engine into a high-level thought partner. Mentioned in this episode... Claude AI (Claude.ai) ChatGPT Gemini Microsoft Copilot Convergence.fm Office Hours
