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Build a Strategic AI Roadmap

Take a holistic approach to crafting an AI strategy that maximizes value, manages risk, and prepares for the future.

Organizations feel pressured to implement AI solutions without taking a holistic look at how AI can benefit them, what safeguards are needed, whether they have the skills and capacity to support it, and where the AI solutions are feasible.
There are significant risks to developing or adopting AI technology, such as a low return on investment, lack of transparency, and threats to reputation and trust, privacy and security, and inclusiveness.
Despite playing a significant role in organizations, HR is being left out of the conversation on AI adoption.

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Executive Summary

Critical Insight

The resurgence of AI has led organizations to consider adopting it to help automate tasks and processes. The success of organizations in leveraging AI hinges on their ability to develop a comprehensive strategy aligned with their AI maturity level, organizational value drivers, and objectives to maximize value while mitigating risks.

Impact & Result

Organizational leaders must come together to determine the AI vision, mission, and values and how AI can support the organization’s value drivers, objectives, and initiatives to ensure success.
Organizations must consider the current state of AI maturity and the desired future state to improve AI maturity and enable the most success from AI investments.
HR must collaborate with organizational leaders to build an AI strategic roadmap that aligns maturity initiatives and AI use cases with the organization’s value drivers, goals, and initiatives to maximize value, mitigate risks, and prepare the organization for the future.

Research & Tools

1. Establish AI strategy scope

Establish the scope of the AI strategy and its vision, mission, and values.

2. Assess AI maturity and identify maturity initiatives

Assess AI maturity and develop maturity initiatives to address the gap between the current and ideal state.

3. Identify AI use cases

Explore AI use cases and connect them to organizational goals and value drivers.

4. Prioritize initiatives and create an AI strategy roadmap

Build an AI strategy roadmap to visualize prioritized initiatives and use cases and communicate the roadmap and next steps.

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Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Workshops offer a structured 3-5 day session designed to help HR teams and organizations address specific challenges and implement HR best practices.

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Guided Implementation

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation, which gives you direct access to our world-class analysts who will connect with you at critical milestones to advise, coach, and ensure your project stays on track.

Guided Phases: Build a Strategic AI Roadmap

Establish AI strategy scope

Call 1

Identify key individuals and establish a cross-functional steering committee. Review organizational goals and initiatives through the organization’s value drivers.