Who should perform an agentic-commerce readiness assessment?
Answer
The assessment should be cross-functional. Ecommerce or digital leadership can coordinate it, but product data, technology, finance, marketing, sales, legal, operations and customer service all control pieces of the system. The objective is not an AI technical audit; it is to determine whether the commercial operating model can support another intermediary.
Why this matters
A technology-only assessment may conclude that systems can connect while missing commercial and governance weaknesses.
What management should examine
- Assign one accountable leader.
- Require evidence from product-data owners.
- Include finance and channel economics.
- Include legal and customer-data governance.
- Include operations and service.
What good looks like
One executive owns the assessment and resulting priorities while functional experts validate their respective areas.
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