DATA & AI STRATEGY
A strategy your board can fund.
Built from the decisions that matter to your business, not from the technology. You get a roadmap, a business case and an operating model, each one tested against the value it has to deliver.
This is Stage 2 of our AI & Data Value Delivery Process, and it starts with a 60-minute Value Review.
Sound familiar?
“We have an AI budget, but no agreed priorities.”
Plenty of activity, but no shared view of which initiatives deserve the investment.
“The board wants a strategy, not another pilot.”
Leadership needs a plan it can fund, measure and hold people to.
“Our data strategy describes platforms, not decisions.”
It explains the technology, but not what the business will do differently or what that is worth.
What you get
An AI & data strategy roadmap
What to do, in what order, and why: a prioritised portfolio of initiatives tied to your strategic objectives.
A business case you can fund
The value each priority should deliver, how it will be measured, and what it will take to deliver it.
An operating model to deliver it
Who owns what, how decisions get made, and the governance and risk controls to scale it safely.
We present it to your leadership team with a clear recommendation on what to fund first.
HOW IT RUNS
Three stages, built on the Canvas
Each stage works through part of the Data & AI Strategy Canvas, the method set out in The Strategy Canvas: A Field Guide for Data & AI.
10 DAYS · CANVAS POINTS 1–4
Define
What is the business trying to achieve, and what is it worth?
• Strategic Objectives
• Key Decisions & Use Cases
• AI / Analytics Opportunities
• Value Measures & ROI/CBA
10 DAYS · CANVAS POINTS 5–7
Enable
What needs to be true for that value to be realised?
• Data Requirements & Products
• Consumers & Users
• Technology & Systems
10 DAYS · CANVAS POINTS 8–10
Prepare
Can the organisation fund, run and scale it without unacceptable risk?
• Portfolio Management
• Operating Model & Governance
• Risks & Ethics
Recent strategy work
CREDIT MANAGEMENT
£15m saved
over three years
A data strategy and a new operating model built around data squads, live in four months.
BANKING
~$14m a year
value identified so far
Six ExCo sessions, then every AI use case judged on outcome, owner, measure and value.
HEALTHCARE
$125m
in untapped data value identified
A business-aligned data strategy and roadmap, plus a prioritised plan to de-risk a CRM rollout.
Other ways we help
Start with an hour.
A 60-minute Value Review, at no cost. We look at where your AI & data investment is and isn’t paying back, and you get a short written report afterwards.
No pitch deck. No account managers.
