AI Strategy & Roadmap

Your AI Advantage—Engineered from the Boardroom Down

Why It Matters: Boards and C-suites now treat AI as a top-three strategic priority, yet only 25% see significant value because they lack a coherent roadmap, governance model, and investment discipline. BCG finds firms that focus investments on a handful of high-impact plays generate 2.1× higher ROI than those running many pilots.

What We Do:

• Vision & Ambition Workshop: ½-day session with board/C-suite to frame competitive plays, risk appetite, and success KPIs. Deliverables: Opportunity map, exec memo (≤ 10 slides).
• Capability & Maturity Baseline: Assess data, tech, talent, culture vs. Gartner's 7-work-stream model. Deliverables: Heat-map, peer benchmark, critical gaps.
• Use-Case Portfolio Sprint: Rank ideas by value, feasibility, time-to-impact; pick 3 lighthouse cases with 100-day targets. Deliverables: Prioritized backlog, investment thesis.
• Three-Year AI Roadmap: Sequence initiatives, capex/opex envelopes, KPI ladders; align with LTIP and budgeting calendar. Deliverables: RACI, policy library, oversight calendar.
• Partner & Platform Strategy: Neutral scorecard for hyperscalers, vector DBs, orchestration stacks with McKinsey QuantumBlack "impact first" lens. Deliverables: 3-year TCO sheet incl. exit costs.
• Talent & Culture Lift: Workforce skills matrix, upskilling plan, change narrative; addresses 67% talent gap cited by Deloitte. Deliverables: Upskill roadmap, comms pack.
• Financial & Risk Guardrails: FinOps playbook to cap cloud/GPU burn; scenario models for compliance fines. CIOs report Gen AI inflates cloud bills ~30%. Deliverables: FinOps dashboard, risk heat-map.

Example Questions We Can Help With:

• Which two AI initiatives will lift EBITDA fastest within 12 months without breaching the AI Act risk tiers?
• What org-chart and vendor mix let you scale AI workloads 5× while keeping cloud spend flat?
• How do you present your GenAI risk posture to the audit committee in one slide?