Engaged with AI and its implications for companies, economics and society.
AI potential clarification
I help leadership teams choose where AI should change the business first.
We look at what AI changes in the internal operation and in the company’s proposition to the market, choose one business problem with a named owner and decide what the company should own, fund and change next.
Map the current work people decisions data systems Choose the business case one opportunity with a named owner Decide the next investment what must be true who owns it how the effect will be measured
Working with AI strategy, business design and current AI systems as a full-time focus.
The business potential
Where AI can create business value
01 capacity complexity 02 more valuable the existing proposition 03 inside the company Expertise data workflows software, services or recurring revenue
Increase capacity without increasing complexity at the same rate.
AI can take over or accelerate repeated knowledge work and reduce handovers.
Make the existing proposition more valuable.
AI can make products and services faster, easier to use, more responsive or more capable, changing what customers receive and what the company can compete on.
Create new products, services and revenue models.
Expertise, data and workflows that currently sit inside the company can become software, services or recurring revenue that were not practical to create before.
From business problem to evidence
How the work develops
Map the current work.
We describe the people, decisions, time, cost, customer consequence, data and systems in the current workflow.
Choose the business case.
We select one opportunity with a named owner and a clear account of how AI improves the work.
Decide the next investment.
We state what must be true before the company invests, who owns it and how the effect will be measured.
What you keep
What leadership gets for the investment decision
A ranked opportunity map
The candidate business problems, ranked, each with how AI improves the work, what it depends on and who owns it.
A business case
The evidence and assumptions behind the expected effect on cost, speed, capacity, service, revenue or product capability.
Format
Where we begin
AI opportunity session
Preparation and a leadership session to rank the opportunities and define the first evidence required.
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Questions about the AI work
Where does an AI engagement begin?
It begins with a workflow, decision, service, customer interaction or product capability where leadership can name the expected effect on cost, capacity, revenue, service or product value.
An assignment can start with a focused diagnostic and design phase.
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