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## Segment 8 — execution

## Article 62 — a062

# Laks Srinivasan

**Role in source:** Co-author of the HBR article and one of its two cited voices.

**Profile:** Co-founder and CEO of the **Return on AI Institute**, and previously COO of **Opera Solutions** (an early big-data and AI-services firm). He is positioned as a practitioner focused on AI value realization and executive adoption — which frames the article's emphasis on measurement, ROI, and translating hype into demonstrated return.

**Attributed contributions to this vault (co-authored with [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]]):**
- Value-measurement thread → [[concept-ai-economic-value-measurement]], [[claim-genai-hardest-to-value]], [[contrarian-genai-hardest-to-value]]
- Claims → [[claim-genai-not-displacing]], [[claim-translation-difficulty]], [[claim-premature-layoffs-consequences]]
- Framework → [[framework-effective-ai-implementation]] and its four actions [[action-controlled-experiments]], [[action-use-attrition]], [[action-redesign-business-processes]], [[action-frame-ai-positively]]
- Quotes → [[quote-anticipatory-layoffs]], [[quote-process-difficulty]], [[quote-artificial-phenomenon]]

**Canonical reference (enrichment):** Return on AI Institute and prior Opera Solutions leadership.