Our AI readiness workshop is a comprehensive 2-4 week engagement designed to catalyze your organization’s AI strategy. The format includes:

• Kickoff Presentation (1 hour): We set the stage, aligning expectations and outlining the transformative journey ahead.
• Department Leader Survey (1-2 hours): A deep dive into your organization’s current state, challenges, and aspirations regarding AI.
• Leadership Opportunity and Risk Session (3 hours): A collaborative exploration of AI’s potential impact on your business, identifying key opportunities and mitigating risks.
• Leadership Survey: Gathering crucial insights from those steering the organization’s future.
• Expert Use Case Sessions (4 hours): 1-2 sessions diving into specific, relevant AI applications tailored to your industry and needs.
• Summary Session (2 hours): A comprehensive overview of findings, recommendations, and a clear roadmap for your AI journey.

This format ensures a holistic approach, combining broad organizational insight with deep, targeted expertise. It’s designed to rapidly elevate your team’s AI readiness while providing actionable strategies for implementation.

To maximize the value of this workshop, we ask for focused engagement from key stakeholders:

• Department Leaders: A minimum of 5 hours for core sessions. This ensures comprehensive cross-functional insights and alignment.
• Executive Leadership: 10 hours dedicated to sessions. This commitment from the top drives organizational buy-in and strategic alignment.
• Additional Time: 2-8 private hours per participant for surveys, internal discussions, and exploration. This “homework” is crucial for deep, meaningful outcomes.

This time investment is carefully designed to balance thorough exploration with respect for your busy schedules. The payoff is a well-informed, aligned leadership team ready to drive AI initiatives forward with confidence.

Our core AI readiness workshop is priced at $12,000, structured to provide maximum value while respecting your budget constraints:

• Initial Payment: $8,000 due before the first session
  • This covers our consultant time and secures expert availability
  • Demonstrates mutual commitment to the process
• Flexible Terms: We stand behind the quality and relevance of our workshop
  • If you feel the workshop doesn’t align with your needs, you can request to stop or defer it before or after the Leadership session
  • In such cases, you’ll receive a 50% refund.

This pricing structure reflects our confidence in delivering high-value insights and strategies. It’s designed to:

• Ensure you receive tangible, actionable outcomes
• Provide flexibility if your needs or circumstances change
• Align our success with your satisfaction

The investment in this workshop can yield significant returns by:

• Preventing costly missteps in AI adoption
• Accelerating your AI integration timeline
• Identifying high-impact, low-hanging fruit for immediate ROI
• Aligning your leadership team around a cohesive AI strategy
• Valuing your data and potential for monetization and treatment as a balance sheet asset

Given the transformative potential of AI and the risks of falling behind, this workshop represents a strategic investment in your organization’s future competitiveness and success.

All core sessions are conducted virtually by default, leveraging state-of-the-art collaboration tools to ensure engaging and productive interactions. This approach offers several advantages:

• Flexibility: Accommodates busy schedules and global teams
• Efficiency: Eliminates travel time and costs
• Inclusivity: Allows for easier participation from all key stakeholders

However, we understand the value of face-to-face interactions. In-person sessions are available upon request, subject to the following conditions:

• Additional costs: Client covers travel and accommodation expenses for our team
• Extended hours: Billing for all travel and overnight hours.

For organizations seeking a more tailored experience, we offer customized programs with:

• Bespoke agendas tailored to your specific needs
• On-demand expert sessions for deep dives into specialized topics

While these custom options are available, we generally recommend starting with our standard virtual format. This proven approach ensures a comprehensive foundation for your AI strategy before exploring more specialized avenues.

Our workshops are led by elite consulting professionals chosen specifically for your needs:

• 1-2 seasoned consulting leaders with a proven track record in AI strategy and implementation.
• Selection criteria include: a. Industry expertise aligned with your sector b. Specialized knowledge matching your specific objectives c. Availability to ensure dedicated, focused attention throughout the engagement

Our workshop leaders bring a powerful combination of industry experience, management acumen, and cutting-edge consulting methodologies. This ensures you’re not just getting theoretical knowledge, but practical, battle-tested insights.

We augment this core team with targeted expert sessions, drawing from our vast network of specialists. These may include AI developers, service integrators, legal advisors on AI ethics and compliance, UX designers specializing in AI interfaces, and more. This approach provides you with a 360-degree view of AI implementation, tailored precisely to your needs.

While we don’t directly implement AI systems, our workshop lays the crucial groundwork for successful implementation:

• We establish a robust foundation and clear strategy for AI integration, tailored to your specific business context.
• Our process meticulously catalogs AI opportunities, ranking them by ease of implementation, potential impact, and urgency. This provides you with a clear roadmap for prioritization.
• We leverage our extensive network to recommend trusted partners or contractors best suited for your specific implementation needs.
• Importantly, we provide strategic guidance on integrating AI initiatives with your existing infrastructure and solution providers (e.g., SAP, IBM, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft Azure). This ensures a smooth transition and maximizes the value of your current investments.

Our role is to empower your organization with the knowledge, strategy, and connections needed to make informed decisions and execute AI initiatives with confidence.

The timing of AI adoption is critical, and now is the optimal window for action:

• Historical Perspective: Being too early – like implementing costly, custom machine learning solutions in 2018 – carried significant risks and often led to underwhelming ROI.
• Future Risks: Waiting until say 2026 might seem appealing due to potentially simpler implementation, but the costs of delay are severe:
  • Lost market share to more agile competitors
  • Diminished customer loyalty as they migrate to AI-enhanced alternatives
  • Lagging performance metrics compared to AI-adopting peers
  • Reduced profitability as AI efficiencies become industry standard
  • Missed opportunities to shape the AI landscape in your industry
• The Sweet Spot: Today represents the ideal balance between technology readiness and market advantage. AI tools are now sufficiently mature for practical business application, yet still offer significant competitive edge to early adopters.
• Exponential Risk: As AI implementation becomes easier and more standardized, the existential risks for late adopters increase exponentially. The gap between AI-enabled organizations and laggards will widen rapidly.
• Building Capabilities: Starting now allows you to build AI capabilities incrementally, learning and adapting as you go. This approach is far less risky than a rushed, large-scale implementation forced by market pressures.
• Talent Acquisition: Early movers in AI adoption are attracting top talent. Delaying may mean missing out on crucial human resources needed for successful AI integration.

By acting now, you position your organization at the forefront of the AI revolution, ready to capitalize on emerging opportunities while mitigating the risks of falling behind. Our workshop is designed to give you this critical head start, turning the complex landscape of AI into a clear path forward for your business.