Rebuilding the Product & Engineering Operating Model for the AI-first era
Discover the lessons from two years of AI-first transformation across the Astorg software portfolio and the practical actions companies can take now.
Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie joined Astorg in 2024 and is a member of the Operations team in charge of Digital. Prior to this, Valérie was Chief Digital Factory officer at Carrefour and Global CX and Analytics director for the group. Before that, she was an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, and co-leader of McKinsey Digital Labs.
Valérie started her career by founding Business Lab, a digital agency that became McKinsey & Company's exclusive partner in France. Valérie holds a Master’s in Management from Skema.
She is a French national and is based in Paris.
Astorg White Paper
Over the past two years, Astorg’s Operations team has worked closely with its software companies to build the skills, capabilities and leadership needed for an AI-first Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC).
Our new white paper brings together what we have learned on the ground: what worked, the impact achieved, where new bottlenecks emerged, and the no-regret actions companies can take now.
Two years in, we have achieved
productivity and unlocked
of recurring capacity.
These gains did not come from tooling alone.
They required changes to the operating model across four key areas:
- Product & Engineering — redesigning how products are built and delivered
- People & Talent — evolving skills, roles and team structures
- Governance & Compliance — adapting controls for agentic workflows
- ROI — rethinking how AI investment, cost and value are measured
The paper was developed by Astorg’s Digital, Tech & Data Operations team — Valérie Legat, Andrea Siani and Anastasiia Ivankova — together with contributors from Xceptor, Fenergo, EcoVadis, Fastmarkets and Opus 2.
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Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie joined Astorg in 2024 and is a member of the Operations team in charge of Digital. Prior to this, Valérie was Chief Digital Factory officer at Carrefour and Global CX and Analytics director for the group. Before that, she was an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, and co-leader of McKinsey Digital Labs.
Valérie started her career by founding Business Lab, a digital agency that became McKinsey & Company's exclusive partner in France. Valérie holds a Master’s in Management from Skema.
She is a French national and is based in Paris.
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