Many organizations start AI by giving employees tools to write emails, summarize meetings, or search for information. These tasks are useful, but if the approval process remains the same, the data remains separate and no one owns the results. The organization is just doing the same job a little faster.
From a personal assistant to an operating model
A more important question than choosing a tool is “which part of the work should be redesigned” such as taking on the customer, making a report. Document review or capacity planning, let's look at the whole workflow, from input, decision, hand-off to results. No, just see where the employee is on chat.
Start with the bottleneck, then choose the AI
- Determine desired business outcomes, such as reducing wait times, reducing defect, or increasing conversions.
- Separate repetitive, judgement- and high-risk tasks.
- Choose a use case that has enough information, has a clear owner, and can be tried within the scope of 30-90 days.
- Assign human review, data boundary, and KPIs before pilot begins.
What leaders should ask before scaling
If the pilot succeeds, where will we expand? Who will take care of the workflow when the system goes wrong and what is the cost per item? These answers led AI to move from experimental projects to enterprise-managed capabilities.
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