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AI stands to have a profound impact on how we live and work. But the excitement around gen AI is in danger of distracting business leaders from other core business imperatives and the importance of rewiring their companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is mandatory to focus on what matters and represents significant shifts, such as the importance of architecting the business so that everything can be tested or how to think about a workforce where everyone has their own gen AI \u201ccopilot.\u201d Others, like keeping a tight focus on value, relate to business fundamentals often overlooked under the stresses of day-to-day demands and technology hype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Build something that matters: a new product, solution, or business that creates a competitive\u00a0 advantage\u2014architect a team with the right incentives, tools, and governance to build products or\u00a0 services. A lack of ideas is rarely the cause of failure in creating something new. Companies need\u00a0 help executing their ideas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How are you building an engineering culture where people have the opportunity and incentives to create and innovate? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 What are you building in the next 12 months that will create an advantage for your business, not just a commodity or, worse still, a money pit? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Are you using software to build products, services, or businesses that give you a competitive advantage? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The value of technology-driven innovation comes only when companies drive change deep into the organization\u2019s data architecture, technology environments, talent strategy, and operating model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How are you incentivizing scale (not just innovation)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 What specific initiatives on your road map directly support scaling? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Have you identified the specific roadblocks to achieving scale, and are you clear about how to deal with them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rewired companies build capabilities that build on each other so that value compounds over time\u2014more value, speed, and digital distance over peers. Focus on a domain where you can move the needle quickly and be clear about mutually reinforcing capabilities you must develop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Do you see your technology-driven growth rate today compared with your direct competitors? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Are you developing those hard-to-copy capabilities (processes, workflows, automation) that power the products and services you need to build and improve? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Are you clear about the three most important improvements you should make to increase the\u00a0 pace of your development?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Companies should focus on more than just how to integrate a specific technology, such as gen AI or quantum. Instead, they should concentrate on building the broad set of capabilities\u2014 strategy, talent, agile operations, technology, data, and adoption and scaling\u2014that can harness new technologies, scale them, and ensure they create value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Have you identified the two to four domains you want to transform and the resources you need to complete the work? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 What long-term metrics, objectives, and key results (OKRs) do you have in place, and is your board tracking them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Do you see which emerging technologies could most enhance your competitive differentiation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Value will accrue to businesses with proprietary data that they can use to improve the capabilities of their foundation models in ways their competitors can\u2019t. \u201cData mesh\u201d and \u201cdata as a product\u201d are the most practical ways to reduce centralization and scale the use of high-quality data across an organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Are you clear on how your proprietary data and the world\u2019s public data will lead to a competitive advantage? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 What standards and best practices are in place for building data products across the organization, and are they easily accessible by relevant teams? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Do you have data governance that builds digital trust with your customers and stakeholders? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Your organization’s work will need to change, which can seem overwhelming. Start by identifying a business area and considering possible changes in how it does its work. Pay particular attention to understanding which pivotal roles could most benefit from copilots. Nurture a strong learning culture and structured skill-building that incorporates formal programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Have you identified the most critical roles in your business that could benefit from a general AI copilot? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Which communities of developers are active in sharing knowledge? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How well have your data scientists and engineers learned to work with their copilots?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Companies need an operating model built around products (with dedicated teams developing and providing technology-enabled offerings or services used by customers and employees) and platforms (with dedicated teams providing the back-end technology and data capabilities that support products). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For these teams to work effectively, companies must ensure that the broader organization (legal, cyber, risk, purchasing, finance, and so on) works closely with them to identify and resolve issues quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How many of your teams and solutions are led by a high-quality product owner? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Is the C-suite aligned with the operating model to enable hundreds of pods to deliver digital innovations? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How quickly can you conceive, build, and launch a new product or service? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The gold standard of IT effectiveness will be its ability to help developers stitch together code snippets into a functional product. Cloud must be a core part of IT\u2019s distributed operating model to enable speed and scale. IT\u2019s critical role will be to provide standards, such as for APIs and guardrails, such as embedding policies in code; protect the business\u2019s most sensitive information, such as customer data and financial records; and track the adoption of developed products and platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How often are the code and solutions developers create reused by other teams? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How many libraries exist for critical artifacts such as APIs and prompts, and do your technology teams frequently use them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How many as-a-service capabilities has your technology function developed? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Identify a few essential and self-contained domains in your business, rethink them completely, and be explicit about the value they can create. Ensure your road map’s solutions are tied to specific OKRs that generate value directly. Relevant leadership should meet at least once a quarter (though generally more often) to see whether the initiatives you\u2019ve launched are creating the value you\u2019ve identified. There\u2019s no such thing as being on autopilot when managing progress and capturing value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Is your digital and AI transformation effort focused on a domain large enough to create meaningful value but small enough to be accomplished with your resources? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Is the target of your digital and AI transformation to increase incremental value by at least 20 percent? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How much value have your digital and AI initiatives generated in the past six months?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Embrace the mindset that treats your firm as a continuous testing ground, and then determine which part of your company you should treat as a digital twin. Instrument everything and simulate everything for better insight, experience, and impact. Advanced software practices incorporate tags to help collect feedback, while the best-gen AI developers build testing capabilities into models to measure how they perform in the field accurately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How have you changed your approach to strategy and operations based on digital twin and testing advances? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How well is your digital-twin platform integrated into your product, solution, or business development? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How good (and pervasive) is your A\/B testing capability? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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