Intelligent CXO Issue 52 | Page 25

FEATURE work semi-autonomously toward defined goals within human workflows.
This distinction matters enormously in life sciences, where companies wrestle with growing volumes of unstructured data, which includes regulatory reports, medical literature, market research and field interactions. Traditional analytics struggle to keep pace, and even sophisticated generative models prove limited without the ability to provide actionable insights.
The timing could not be more strategic. Life sciences companies have vast data repositories with enormous potential value that remain largely inaccessible. Consider this: a single enterprise may accumulate 50 million marketing messages from healthcare provider( HCP) interactions across 36 countries over 12 years, spanning 20 or more languages. Before large language models( LLMs) existed, extracting actionable intelligence from this trove of data required prohibitive time and investment.
The strategic selection framework: Three critical questions
Industry leaders who successfully scale agentic AI have discovered that rigorous use-case evaluation separates transformative deployments from costly pilot programmes. These organisations consistently apply a proven three-question framework before committing resources:
1. Is it valuable? Successful implementations solve immediate pain points instead of theoretical problems. They target areas where existing workflows create bottlenecks or where data overload actively slows outcomes. The most promising applications address processes that consume significant human hours: clinical research associates checking trial data, financial www. intelligentcxo. com
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