STRATEGY & CONSULTING
The development of a customized AI strategy forms the basis for a secure, efficient, and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in your company.
Drive Efficiency, Effectiveness and Security
Your Partner for AI Implementation
Finding the Right Starting Point
1. Identifying Strategic AI Use Cases
Working closely with you, we determine where AI can provide the greatest leverage for your business. Through in-depth analysis of your processes, markets, and existing data, we identify promising application areas that are not only technologically feasible but, more importantly, support your strategic goals and generate measurable added value – whether through increasing efficiency, optimizing customer experience, or opening up new business models. The result is a clear prioritization and a customized AI roadmap for your company.
Complementing Your Processes with the Right Technologies
2. Selection and Integration of Future-Proof Technologies
The technology landscape surrounding data and AI is constantly evolving. We offer impartial guidance in selecting the most suitable tools and platforms for your needs, encompassing AI frameworks, machine learning libraries, cloud infrastructures, and specialized applications. Our expertise guarantees that the technologies chosen are not only high-performing and cutting-edge but also integrate smoothly with your current IT environment, establishing a solid basis for scalable and dependable AI solutions.
Your Data: The Strategic Fuel for AI
3. Designing and Building Intelligent Data Architectures
A solid data foundation is the backbone of any successful AI initiative. We support you in designing and implementing flexible and high-performing data architectures – from modern data lakes and data warehouses to streaming architectures. We emphasize scalability, data quality, governance, and security to ensure your data is reliably collected, processed, and optimally usable for your AI models. A well-designed data architecture is the prerequisite for valid analyses and accurate predictions.
Your Structured Path to Successful AI Implementation
4. Designing Your Integrated Data and AI Strategy
Realizing the full, lasting power of data and AI demands a clear strategic focus. We help you create a comprehensive data and AI strategy that defines where you’re going, sets achievable goals, and provides a practical plan to get there. We look at more than just the tech – considering your organizational setup, the skills you need, and how your culture needs to adapt. A strong strategy ensures everything works together for sustainable success.
From planning to implementation
Our Consulting Approach
Our strategy development process is designed to seamlessly and sustainably transition your business into the world of artificial intelligence.
We begin by analyzing your goals and challenges, evaluating your existing technologies, and identifying and prioritizing the most relevant AI projects.
From there, we create a clear, actionable implementation plan.
With customized training and the execution of prioritized initiatives, we guide you step by step toward a future driven by AI innovation.
First Steps Towards AI Implementation
Our Workshops
Your Compass for a Data-Driven Future
AI Strategy Workshop
A clear AI strategy is vital for success in a data-driven world. Our workshop helps you unlock AI’s full potential for your processes, tied directly to your company strategy and goals. The main aim: define precise, measurable AI goals based on a solid analysis of your current state and potential. Workshop content includes a systematic assessment via targeted analysis and stakeholder input to clearly define your starting point. This builds the necessary foundation for successful AI implementation and guides you to your strategic targets.
Workshop agenda
Current Situation Assessment
This initial phase forms the foundation of the workshop. Here, we systematically gather information about your current starting position.
This means we conduct a structured assessment covering key areas such as the market, competition, an initial data inventory, and the general process structure within your company.
The goal is to develop a clear and shared understanding of where you currently stand.
The outcome of this phase is a detailed status report, which includes, among other things, a first rough data and process inventory and forms the basis for all subsequent steps.
SWOT & AI Maturity Analysis
Leveraging the insights from your current situation, these analyses provide a solid foundation for defining your future goals and pinpointing specific areas where AI can drive optimization within your organization.
We perform a comprehensive SWOT analysis to uncover your internal strengths and weaknesses, alongside external opportunities and threats relevant to AI adoption.
Simultaneously, through an AI Maturity Analysis, we assess your organization’s current readiness and capabilities in terms of AI expertise and technological infrastructure.
Engaging Stakeholders
This phase is critical for building widespread acceptance and securing vital support for your upcoming AI strategy. The focus is on identifying key players, both internal and external to your organization, and actively bringing them into the process.
We systematically capture their expectations, address their concerns, and understand their needs related to AI initiatives. A comprehensive stakeholder mapping exercise visualizes these connections and interests, providing a clear basis for developing effective communication and engagement strategies.
Strategic AI Goal Definition
Leveraging the findings from the preceding phases, this stage is where your future direction is clearly defined.
We derive concrete, measurable, and strategically aligned AI objectives specifically for your organization. These goals are directly informed by the identified opportunities and the input gathered from stakeholders.
The objectives are meticulously documented, frequently utilizing the SMART framework to ensure they are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
Concurrently, we define the corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will serve as the benchmarks for measuring success.
Your Guide to Your Most Effective AI Use Cases
AI Potential and Use Cases Workshop
To succeed in the data-driven economy, it’s crucial to recognize the concrete potential of AI within your processes. Our AI Potential and Use Cases Workshop is designed to help you do just that. The main objective is the systematic identification and evaluation of processes that exhibit significant potential for AI optimization. The workshop focuses on generating and detailing promising use cases, matching them with suitable technology, and evaluating their value to prioritize the most relevant applications and pave the way for implementation.
Workshop agenda
Brainstorming Use Case Ideas
This phase begins with the broad identification of potential processes within the company that could be considered for optimization through AI.
Subsequently, the collected ideas are clustered to form initial hypotheses for promising application areas (use cases).
The goal is to gather and organize a large number of possible starting points.
Documenting Current Processes
After potential processes have been identified and initial ideas clustered, this phase involves creating detailed process profiles for 3-6 prioritized processes with identified AI potential.
The current state of the process („as-is“ state) is described in detail to gain a clear understanding of the current flow and its challenges.
Aligning Technology & Describing Future Processes
Value Analysis
The final phase is dedicated to evaluating and prioritizing the developed use cases. Simplified business cases are created for the potential AI applications.
The prioritization of the use cases typically occurs using a Complexity/Value matrix, where the expected benefit (Value) is put in relation to the estimated effort or complexity (Complexity) of implementation.
This helps to select the most promising use cases for further pursuit.
Your Framework for Safe and Responsible AI KI
AI Guidelines Workshop
To fully leverage the potential of AI safely and responsibly, your company needs clear internal guidelines and behaviors. Our AI Guidelines Workshop is designed to support you in creating and embedding these essential guardrails. The main objective is the development and adaptation of company-specific AI guidelines that create a safe, ethical, and compliant framework for the use of AI in all your processes. The workshop uses a proven template as a basis and focuses on the joint evaluation, discussion, and concrete adaptation of the guideline content to your specific AI strategy, process environment, and values, followed by planning their implementation and embedding throughout the company.
Workshop agenda
Introduce, Understand, and Contextualize Guidelines
This phase begins with an introduction to the topic of AI guidelines and an explanation of their importance for the company within the context of the existing AI strategy and process environment.
Central to this is the presentation of an AI guidelines template as a working basis.
We create a shared understanding of the structure and core themes of the template and discuss the specific needs and challenges of your company to which the template will be adapted.
Jointly Review and Evaluate Template Sections
In this interactive phase, we go through each paragraph and section of the template together.
For each section, we assess its relevance for your company and identify which principles and formulations can be adopted and where adaptation is needed.
The goal is to obtain an initial assessment of how well the template already fits and which areas require special attention during the shaping process.
Adapt and Customize Guidelines
This is the core phase of the workshop, where the template is concretely adapted to your company’s circumstances.
Based on the discussions and evaluations from Phase 2, we collectively fill in the placeholders provided in the template and precisely formulate the content according to your corporate culture, processes, and specific AI use cases.
In doing so, the principles of the template are tailored to your individual situation.
Finalize, Embed, and Plan Implementation
In this concluding phase, we refine the drafted guidelines and ensure their practicality for real-world application. We finalize the specific AI guidelines tailored to your company.
Following this, we develop a comprehensive plan for successfully implementing and embedding these guidelines throughout your organization.
This plan covers crucial aspects such as communicating the guidelines to employees, outlining necessary training programs, and integrating the guidelines into relevant company processes and existing policies.
CONTACT
I.AI Consulting & Training
Cameron Wagenknecht
Eppendorfer Landstrasse 63
20249 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40 572 050 87
