Yoram Friedman, MD

With 15+ years building enterprise cloud and data platforms, I pair the product track record of a senior technology leader with the judgment of a trained physician. The clinical background isn't a domain specialty; it's a lens: rigorous about evidence, deliberate about supervision, and clear-eyed about what it means when a system acts before anyone reviews the decision. I bring that lens to agentic AI wherever being wrong has consequences: operations, finance, enterprise data, and healthcare alike, shipped at Walmart scale, SAP enterprise, and earlier at Microsoft.

Senior Director at Walmart Global Tech ($400M+ in operational savings; a 10-person global PM team). Most recently leading product areas for SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP's data foundation for enterprise AI, and previously shipping regulated clinical health tech at Hello Heart.

The hardest part of technology transformation isn't the architecture; it's the people. I focus on the human and cultural side of change: how teams adopt new tools, where resistance comes from, and how to design rollouts that respect workflow reality and build genuine trust. Technology that isn't adopted isn't a product. It's a cost.

Recent · Harvard Medical School / Emeritus

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Work

Four books, a standalone, and a weekly column

A four-book series on building agentic AI products, and keeping the human judgment they route through. A standalone book on what medicine is risking by letting AI into the room. And 100+ articles, with new writing weekly.

The Agentic AI Series

Free online · agenticaiproductmanagement.com ↗

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Standalone · On medicine

The Second One in the Room

Medicine let AI into the room and looked away, and almost no one noticed that the wall keeping watch went with it. A field report from that dissolution.

Available on Amazon ↗

Articles · Weekly

Data, Decisions, and Clinics

100+ articles on healthcare AI, enterprise data architecture, regulation, and what it takes for AI to move from pilot to production in a regulated environment.

data-decisions-and-clinics.com ↗

The signature framework

The Agentic AI PM Lifecycle

Six phases that name what a product manager actually does when shipping an agentic AI product. The backbone of the book, the article series, and the SAP Community posts. Most teams enter Phase 1 without Phase 0. That's where the failures begin.

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Used as the structural basis for the four-book Agentic AI Series, the article series at data-decisions-and-clinics.com, and the SAP Community AI Product Management posts. Adaptable as a multi-session PM upskilling program for organizations building agentic systems in regulated environments.

Speaking & impact

Four books and a standalone. One argument.

Most people write about AI. These come from someone who trained in the clinical rooms AI is now entering, and then spent fifteen years building the enterprise platforms displacing them.

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