Reimagining the Enterprise Innovation Engine in the Agentic Era
Red Hat, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Red Hat's Office of the CTO updates its enterprise innovation playbook for agentic workflows that compress prototyping from months to days.
Stephen Watt of Red Hat's Office of the CTO revisits a playbook for discovering, developing and commercializing emerging technologies.
He argues agentic workflows have sharply accelerated research-to-portfolio cycles, with prototypes now built in days rather than months, and that this velocity creates organizational risk if operating and communication models do not keep pace.
The post discusses balancing fast-moving AI work against the stability needs of core infrastructure and compliance.