Designed To Accelerate

In this episode of Designed to Accelerate, Steph Louis and I sit down with Cornelius Pone—co-founder of Digital FastForward and a Lead System Architect with more than 25 years of experience across hundreds of Pega implementations—to explore why AI is transforming how enterprise delivery gets done. The biggest takeaway? AI doesn’t just change the tools—it changes the operating model. Delivery organ...

In this episode of Designed to Accelerate, Steph Louis and I sit down with Kenneth Hearn — AVP of Digital Process Automation at Navy Federal Credit Union — to explore how AI is expanding the pool of people who get to ideate within the enterprise, and what that means for the future of solution design. We discuss: How AI tools like Pega Blueprint empower everyone to ideate, not just developers and a...

AI is changing the economics of building software and operating businesses. But lower cost and faster execution don’t automatically create better outcomes. In this episode of Designed to Accelerate, Steph Louis and I sit down with Reshma Block — Founder & Principal at Compass Consulting and former CTO at Tricon Residential — to explore a hard truth many leadership teams are struggling to confr...

Most solution designers and architects are now grappling with how to introduce AI into their design process—from ideation through prototyping and delivery. But far fewer have a clear understanding of how solution design actually works from end to end. In this episode of Designed to Accelerate, hosts Clay Richardson and Steph Louis kick off Season 2 by introducing a more practical perspective on so...

Most conversations about AI and the Business Analyst role focus on one question:Will AI replace Business Analysts? That’s the wrong question. In this episode, we explore what’s actually changing—and why tools like Pega Blueprint are exposing a deeper shift in how value gets created. The real transformation isn’t about replacement. It’s about moving from:→ order-taking→ to value creationIn this con...

Most organizations are experimenting with AI.But far fewer are figuring out how to turn those experiments into enterprise solutions that deliver real business value. In this episode of Designed to Accelerate, hosts Clay Richardson and Steph Louis sit down with Steve Bixby (SVP of Product Engineering at Pega) to explore what it actually takes to move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale solu...

AI is transforming how enterprise software gets designed and built. But what happens when AI begins to collapse the lines that separate design, architecture, and build. In this episode, Clay Richardson and Steph Lewis sit down with Pega’s Chief Product Officer, Kerim Akgonul, to explore how AI is shifting the boundary between design and development. Using the analogy of collaboration across a new...

What happens when the founder of Pega joins the conversation? A masterclass in solution design, AI, and value creation. Hosts Clay Richardson and Steph Louis sit down with Alan Trefler to explore how design thinking has evolved—and why solution design is becoming the real differentiator in the AI era. From Blueprint to solution design guardrails, this episode dives deep into how organizations can...

AI is moving fast—but speed without direction doesn’t create value. In the debut episode of Designed to Accelerate, hosts Clay Richardson and Steph Louis set the stage for a bold new conversation about what it really takes to design for value in the age of AI. From reducing AI anxiety to rethinking how humans and machines work together, this episode lays the foundation for leaders, designers, and...