Part III. Building Your Agentic Mesh
Part III shifts from design to implementation. After exploring what agents are and how they form ecosystems, these final chapters turn to the practical challenge of building an agentic mesh within an enterprise. They connect the abstract ideas of earlier chapters to the organizational realities of deploying agents at scale: how teams must evolve, how agents are constructed and industrialized, and how a clear roadmap turns vision into execution. Together, these chapters form a playbook for enterprises ready to move from experimentation to production.
Chapter 13, “Operating Model and Team Structure”, explores how organizations must adapt as agents become part of everyday operations. It discusses new roles, workflows, and accountability models required to manage thousands of autonomous agents. The chapter examines how teams evolve, from data science and IT units to cross-functional agent teams that include governance, operations, and domain expertise. It also considers how this shift changes the nature of work itself: as agents take on more cognitive and operational load, human teams must focus on oversight, coordination, and higher-level decision making. The result is a new organizational design for the age of intelligent collaboration.
Chapter 14, “Agent Factory: Building Agents at Scale”, describes how to industrialize the process of creating, testing, and deploying agents. Just as manufacturing transformed production through standardization ...
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