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Gabriel Mendoza at TEDx Grand Junction

Executive & board advisor · TEDx speaker

Gabriel
Mendoza

The decisions that turn intelligence into results.

Continuing strategic counsel for CEOs and C-suite leaders. Keynotes that challenge how organizations think, decide and act together.

Organizational Co-Intelligence · English and Spanish

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25+ yearsLeading transformation
8 yearsImplementing AI
20+ countriesEnterprises and SMBs
TEDx speakerEnglish and Spanish

OCI / Visual Brief 07

Intelligence buys metabolism.

How organizations turn what they invest into coordinated action.

What goes in

  • Strategy
  • Knowledge
  • Talent
  • Capital
  • AI

Organizational Co-Intelligence

The capacity to turn inputs into collective work

Execution capacity

  • Less waste and rework
  • Faster decisions and execution
  • Shorter time to value
Where value leaks

Rework / Delay / Escalation / Frustration

Business value at stake

Operating costs, margin protection and the realization of AI and acquisition value.

Stronger execution can support business results. It does not guarantee revenue, margin or returns.

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Executive & board advisory

Decisions with business consequences

Continuing counsel for CEOs and C-suite leaders: challenge assumptions, weigh choices and strengthen the capacity to turn investment into results.

Why is growing AI activity not becoming enterprise value?

Challenge adoption assumptions and priorities. Connect decisions about AI to operating costs, margin and time to value, not simply deployment counts.

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Why does execution break despite a sound strategy and capable people?

Think through decision rights, accountability and cross-functional dependencies where delay and rework absorb capacity and increase operating costs.

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Are acquired capabilities becoming part of how the company works?

Review the organizational assumptions behind synergies, integration choices and the preservation of valuable expertise. Focus on the path from purchase to realized value.

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What capability does your next stage of growth require?

CEO / CXO Strategic Counsel

Experience informing judgment

Grounded in operating experience

Implementation experience that informs my counsel today. Anonymous clients; these examples are not presented as retained advisory relationships.

01 / OCI Operating Model Design

A shared operating model after acquisition-led growth

An industrial technology company expanding through acquisitions.

Ten cross-functional processes. Most deliverables approved and piloted.

Reported changes

Early observations: fewer escalations, clearer roles, fewer ad-hoc meetings replaced by a smaller number of milestone-driven meetings, and increased team satisfaction with their roles.

Why it matters to the business

Less management time spent resolving ownership and coordination. More predictable execution as a foundation for realizing acquisition value.

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02 / AI-assisted operating transformation

Daily improvement becomes shared organizational knowledge

Approximately 1,000 teams across multiple countries.

AI-assisted daily improvement: check-ins, issues, escalations and KPIs. Deployment completed.

Reported changes

Reported improvements in completion of check-ins, improvement actions and issue resolution, and in data accuracy. Supporting capabilities include AI-assisted insights, a shared issue-and-resolution knowledge base, and real-time dashboards and reporting.

Why it matters to the business

Stronger operating discipline and visibility for prioritizing quality and cost improvements. Shared knowledge reduces the need to reconstruct information.

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Qualitative changes reported by Gabriel. Business relevance is an interpretation; savings, margin and financial returns have not been quantified. About the OCI framework

Ideas for the executive agenda

The intelligence between us

Seven essays on the conditions that allow organizations to think and act together.

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07 / OCI SERIES · 9 min read

What Intelligence Can and Cannot Buy

Organizational intelligence does not buy outcomes directly. It buys metabolism: the ability to convert strategy, knowledge, capital, talent, acquisitions, and AI into coordinated action.

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01 / OCI SERIES · 5 min read

The AI Revolution Is Asking the Wrong First Question

Artificial Intelligence has triggered one of the most significant technological shifts in modern business. But the better first question is what makes an organization intelligent in the first place.

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06 / OCI SERIES · 13 min read

The Infrastructure Nobody Designed

Organizational co-intelligence can be understood as five interconnected layers of cognitive architecture: shared meaning, knowledge, decisions, execution, and adaptation.

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The OCI architecture

Five layers. One collective capability.

A connected system: learning must change how the organization understands and performs its work.

01

Shared meaning

A common understanding of purpose, priorities, and the language of the business.

02

Shared knowledge

Relevant knowledge reaches the people who need it, when they need it.

03

Shared decisions

Evidence, decision rights, and judgment turn knowledge into commitments.

04

Shared execution

Commitments become coordinated action across organizational boundaries.

05

Shared adaptation

Experience changes how the organization thinks and works.

Gabriel Mendoza

Experience at global scale

25+ years turning transformation into real work

I held leadership roles at HP, eBay and Intuit, managing multi-billion-dollar ecosystems, driving turnarounds and launching new categories.

As Co-Founder of Praxie, I have helped enterprises and SMBs in more than 20 countries implement AI-enabled operational systems. I am Principal Consultant at Innovation Point.

Eight years implementing AI across strategy, manufacturing, quality, continuous improvement, innovation and HR have shown me the same software producing very different results depending on the organization receiving it. OCI is my investigation into why.

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Leadership experience: HP · eBay · Intuit
Praxie · Innovation Point

TEDx Grand Junction / November 4, 2023

Unlocking A.I. for Work Productivity

Gabriel on stage

A talk about AI and work productivity. Evidence of Gabriel’s delivery on stage, preceding the development of OCI.

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Ideas for turning knowledge into action. Once a month.

Essays, questions for executive teams and updates from the Organizational Co-Intelligence investigation. Choose English or Spanish.

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