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## Segment 8 — execution

## Article 89 — a089

# Vijay D'Silva

**Vijay D'Silva** is a co-author of the HBR article and a senior figure at [[entity-mckinsey-and-company]].

**Profile:** Senior partner / senior advisor at McKinsey, focused on AI and operations (public profile "Vijay G. D'Silva"). He publicly summarized the joint MIT–McKinsey work on LinkedIn, highlighting the leaders-vs-rest gap and identifying the same four factors — executive sponsorship, partners, collaboration, and data management — and confirming that "the payback period for AI projects has shortened for all companies since our previous study."

**Role in this source:** Co-author and one of three attributed voices (with [[entity-bruce-lawler]] and [[entity-vivek-arora]]); brings the McKinsey consulting/operations lens to [[framework-four-pillars-of-ai-success]].

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- [[quote-widening-gap]], [[quote-partnership-shift]], [[quote-leadership-roi]]
- Co-authored claims including [[claim-converged-payback-period]] and [[claim-partnership-ecosystem-maturation]]; his LinkedIn commentary is a corroborating source referenced across the enrichment record.