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AI Fit Report

What does it take to be AI Fit today?


There’s rarely a leadership meeting we walk into where AI isn’t at the top of the agenda. 

So we wanted to know what leaders were doing about it.

This summer, we spoke with experts, engineers, investors and business leaders across 14 industries.

900 minutes of insight.

900 minutes of practical advice.

Here’s what we learned.

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We found that becoming AI Fit isn’t just about technology. It’s about three interconnected areas:

Leadership

Getting everyone’s mindset right. AI is intimidating and new but leaders have always had to deal with new threats and obstacles. Your team needs you to step up.

People

Much of the public narrative has been about job replacement. The real opportunity is to empower and turbocharge your people. But you have to extinguish the fear first. People will deliver AI advantages but only if they feel confident.

Integration

A bit like the digital revolution that started as a “department” but became marbled through the organization, AI is something to be woven into the fabric of the work, how you do the work and the outcome of the work for customers. It is not a bolt-on.

Our research uncovered two sets of elements…

A flowchart with six colored boxes stacked vertically. The top box is gray and labeled 'Structure & Enable Your Data.' The second box is light green and labeled 'Think Horizontally.' The third box is orange and labeled 'Plan All Scenarios.' The fourth box is light blue and labeled 'Instrument the AI.' The fifth box is pink and labeled 'Design for Trust.' The bottom box is gray and labeled 'Build Partnerships.'

Foundational Principles that are necessary for any AI pursuit

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AI Fit Strategic Shifts

Strategic shifts leaders are making today to take full advantage of what AI is and will become

Foundational Design Principles

There’s no question AI can be positively disruptive.

It’s also moving faster than any disruptor we’ve seen before.

Our inquiry identified a number of important design principles.

The preparatory work is not easy to do, but it’s worth investing the resources to be ready to train and deploy AI at scale.

Foundational Design Principles Diagram

7 Strategic Shifts
for AI Leadership

The shifts we have seen are fundamentally about culture - how the company thinks about AI, its attitude towards how to integrate it, how they build new behaviors and how they rise above the noise surrounding AI - to move forward with clarity and focus.

AI Fit Strategic Shifts

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