AI Initiative Strategy
From an idea to a business case management can approve.
Context
Week 1
Your business goals and roadmap, your sector's maturity, your data, your teams, the systems the initiative would touch. The constraints that count: budget, skills, the law that applies. No checklist here; the method is written from your context.
- Context brief
- Data and systems inventory for the initiative
- Constraints on record
- Stakeholder map
Use case and feasibility
Week 2
Which problem the initiative solves, for whom, measured how. Data readiness, build, buy or partner, the risks that would stop it, the obligations it triggers.
- Use case definition with success measures
- Data readiness assessment
- Build, buy or partner analysis
- Risk and obligation screen
Business case
Week 3
Cost, expected return, time to value, the risk accepted and the risk refused. Written to be defended in front of a board. If the answer is no, the business case says so.
- Business case and cost model
- Expected return and time to value
- Risk acceptance statement
- Go, no-go recommendation
Roadmap
Week 4
Phases, decision gates, owners. The controls that go in from the start, so the compliance check at launch is a formality rather than a rescue.
- Phased roadmap with decision gates
- Owners and dates
- Controls required per phase
- Launch readiness criteria
Terms of the engagement
Typically one week per stage. Scope and duration are fixed in writing before we start.
What a remote audit cannot do: observe practice on the floor. The report says what was verified from documents and interviews, and what was not. A legal opinion on local law comes from your counsel; we map the obligations, we do not give legal advice.
If management wants recommendations before the facts are complete, we say so once. If that does not change, we stop the engagement and invoice the work done.
Bring the initiative.
One conversation to establish what you want to build, what it would take, and whether it is worth it. No obligation, no pitch.