I stopped asking my team to use AI. I asked them to manage it

This article argues that the next step in AI adoption is not simply giving employees copilots, but treating agents as managed digital workers that can coordinate across product, design, engineering, and operations. For CIOs, the strategic implication is that AI value shifts from isolated productivity gains to end-to-end workflow acceleration, which requires new governance, clear ownership, quality controls, and FinOps visibility because human review and integration become the primary bottlenecks.