AI Strategy
LABUSA AI strategy insights: how to plan, prioritize, and adopt artificial intelligence to drive measurable outcomes and lasting advantage.
Measuring the Value of an AI Readiness Assessment
Twelve months after an assessment, somebody who did not authorise it will ask what it achieved. It is a fair question and it is usually asked at budget time, which is the worst moment to start looking for an answer.
The ...
Is Your Organization Ready for AI? 10 Questions to Ask
Most organizations do not arrive at artificial intelligence through a strategy. They arrive because a staff member found a tool that saved them an afternoon, or because a board member asked at the wrong moment what the p...
The 7 Dimensions of AI Readiness
Ask ten suppliers what makes an organization ready for AI and you will get ten lists. Most of them are the same list with different headings, and the differences matter less than the discipline of having one and applying...
What Happens After an AI Readiness Assessment?
The point of an assessment is not the report. It is the decisions the report lets you make, and the fact that you can explain them afterwards.
This is what the weeks after one actually look like, what you are holding at ...
Building an AI Technology Roadmap
A roadmap is the document that turns a decision into a sequence. It answers what happens first, what cannot start until something else finishes, what each stage costs, who owns it, and what would cause the plan to change...
How to Build an AI Strategy for Your Business
Most documents called an AI strategy are not one. They are a list of interesting technologies with an ambition attached, “we will use AI to improve customer experience and drive efficiency”, which commits the...
What Is an AI Readiness Assessment?
An AI readiness assessment is a structured review of whether an organization can actually support artificial intelligence in the places it wants to use it, and, where it cannot yet, what has to change first.
It is a diag...
How a Virtual CIO Can Help Your Business Adopt AI
Most small and midsize organizations are already using AI. Not by decision, by accumulation. Someone in marketing subscribed to a writing tool, someone in support started summarizing tickets, someone in finance is pastin...
Enterprise AI Content Strategy
The most expensive mistake in AI content projects is selecting a platform first. It happens because the platform decision feels like progress, is easy to get budget for, and produces a demonstration. The questions that d...
IT Consulting in the Era of AI: Why Technology Strategy Matters More Than Ever
AI Is Changing the Role of IT ConsultingFor decades, organizations have relied on IT consultants to help them select technology, modernize infrastructure, improve security, and align technology investments with business ...