Discipline
AI strategy
Deciding what to do with artificial intelligence before committing budget: where it applies, how much it returns and what gets ruled out.
12 services in this discipline
This is yours if
Three signs that this is yours.
- The governing body wants a position on technologies that are not proven yet.
- The return case was built by whoever is selling to you.
- Every area brings you its own initiative and all of them look reasonable.
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Independent committee advisor
The six technology questions missing from your committee's agenda. Put them on the next session: the answers, or the absence of them, are worth more than any presentation.
- What does a machine decide in this organization, and who answers for each of those decisions?
- Which vendor could we not replace in six months even if we wanted to?
- Which critical function has never been tested in a real rehearsal?
- What was automated this year without this committee approving it?
- How long would it take us to reconstruct one specific decision for a third party?
- What happens if our vendor changes version without telling us?
If three of the six go unanswered in the room, you already know what the committee is missing: it is the inventory that sits behind none of the six questions. The advisor is there to demand that inventory and to read it when it arrives.
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Of everything being announced, what is worth getting into and what is not?
The committee wants a position and I do not know what is real and what is noise.
With your leadership in the room: a short list of what to get into and another, more valuable one, of what to stay out of.
See the situationInvestment verdictDoes the return on that investment survive an independent review?
The business case was built by the person selling it to me.
A verdict from someone who takes no commission, with the exact assumption that would have to fail for the numbers to stop working.
See the situationPrioritization sprintWhich of all your AI ideas deserve budget?
I have fifteen ideas and budget for two.
Your candidates ranked by return and by what it costs to keep them running, with the evidence behind every estimate.
See the situationPrioritization for operationsWhere does automating pay off inside your operation?
The assessments people bring me talk about the company. I run operations.
Your volumes and the points where automation pays off in your area, with the hours a year at stake in each one.
See the situationPrioritization for people functionsWhere does AI belong in human resources, and where should it not be touched?
They are pushing us to put AI into recruiting and I am the one who signs off on whatever comes out.
Your area's use cases ordered by return and by risk, with the ones you should not touch named and argued.
See the situationPrioritization for enterprise salesWhere is your sales cycle breaking down, and what can actually move it?
The forecast does not hold and we do not know why a deal falls until it has already fallen.
Where automation moves the needle in a long sales cycle, meaning qualifying, responding and forecasting, and what they are selling you that moves nothing.
See the situationSector prioritizationWhat is actually working in your industry and what is noise?
They bring us ideas from other industries and ours does not work the same way.
Your sector's candidates ordered by return and by risk, with the ones to drop and why.
See the situationFrontier radarWhat has moved in your sector since the last time you looked?
Last year's session was useful, but it was a snapshot and the map has already changed.
The frontier map of your business kept current, with what changed, what died and what now forces a decision.
See the situationVerdict SessionWho do you test a decision against when everyone with an opinion has something to gain?
I have a call to make this week and almost everyone with an opinion has something to gain from the answer.
A written one-page verdict: what you are looking at, what has to be decided and what the next step is.
See the situationIndependent committee advisorWho challenges the technical investments in your committee?
In the committee nobody contradicts the person presenting, and the people who know work for him.
An independent technical voice on your risk or technology committee, four times a year, with a written opinion.
See the situationOperations counselWho do you consult about the decisions you cannot consult on internally?
The decisions that weigh most, I make without an independent peer in the room.
Independent judgment on a schedule: you bring your decisions and you leave with something written on each one.
See the situationWhere inference runsWhat does your AI actually cost, depending on where it runs?
Upstairs they want to bring it in-house and I am the one who will have to operate whatever they decide.
Your break-even point calculated with your volumes, and the failure mode you take on if you decide to self host.
See the situationThe other disciplines
AI governance and compliance
9Automation and agents
8Data and analytics
5Cybersecurity and resilience
4Critical operations and crisis
5Mergers, separation and diligence
4Cost of AI and software
5Infrastructure and platform
5Or see it by the cycle: Vanguard, Forge and Taskforce. Or by the question you arrive with, in the seven questions. And if you already know the name, there is the full list.
What is the decision you have in front of you this week?