You’re at Stage 6 of 6: The AI Visionary & Optimizer!

Truly outstanding! You're operating at a highly strategic level, shaping the future of AI in your context. This is leadership in action.

What This Stage Means

You strategically architect AI's role within your business, thoughtfully discerning its best and highest use against simpler, traditional methods if they're more effective. You possess a practical understanding of AI's evolving strengths and weaknesses, proactively embedding your unique company context to harness future capabilities. Your goal is to masterfully shape AI's integration for sustainable, long-term strategic advantage.

Examples

You might use AI for nuanced challenges like complex customer request routing, while strategically opting for traditional code for high-volume, rule-based tasks where it's simply faster or more cost-effective. You're already preparing for AI's expanding capabilities—designing strategic questions today for future, more powerful analyses that leverage your layered company knowledge. Crucially, you prioritize fixing core process bottlenecks before building an AI to merely address a symptom.

Focus Areas for Visionaries & Optimizers

  • Question Assumptions: Always ask if AI is the best solution, not just a solution. Understand the costs (financial, computational, maintenance) and benefits compared to traditional methods.

  • Learn Broadly About AI's Direction: You don't need to be a data scientist, but follow practical trends in AI capabilities (like context window sizes, multimodal inputs, agentic behaviors). Understand its current limits and where tangible breakthroughs are likely. This helps you anticipate.

  • Think Long-Term & Systemically: Consider how AI fits into your overall business strategy and existing technology landscape. How can AI and non-AI parts work together efficiently for the best outcome over time?

  • Prioritize Value, Cost, and Efficiency: Focus on how AI can deliver measurable results. Sometimes, a simpler, non-AI approach achieves strategic goals more effectively or at a significantly lower cost.

  • Prepare for the Future: Think about what skills or high-level process designs your organization will need to take advantage of AI that's 1-3 years away. Start that strategic thinking now.

  • Balance Innovation with Pragmatism: Be excited about AI's potential, but ground your plans in what's practical, cost-effective, and genuinely beneficial for your specific organizational needs and strategic goals.

Thinking Bigger: AI Across Your Organization

As you begin exploring AI for yourself, it's also a good time to consider how this journey might unfold across your entire organization. We poured our expertise into a Company AI Assessment to get it right. In less than 5 minutes, you’ll get an unprecedented AI Company Maturity report with detailed, personalized recommendations that meet your company where it’s at.

STEP 1: Take online assessment A fast and friendly rating of your company’s current AI sophistication

STEP 2: Get personalized results Generate detailed and customized recommendations for AI maturity

STEP 3: Engage your company Encourage colleagues to self-assess to get a free, multi-stakeholder analysis comparing and contrasting the different AI points of view within your company