Is Your Company Ready for AI?
Forget the 100-page AI strategy for a minute.
Answer these questions
Do You Have an Institutional Knowledge Problem?
Answer these seven questions honestly to find out where your organization stands.
Can an employee quickly find a policy, previous proposal, procedure, contract, project document, or answer?
Or do they have to search folders and ask coworkers?
What happens when Susan retires?
What happens when your best project manager leaves?
If important knowledge disappears with employees, you have an institutional knowledge problem.
Are employees writing proposals, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, or documents that someone else has already created?
Are people using ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, or other AI tools?
If they are, your company has already started using AI. The real question is whether that AI usage is becoming a company asset.
Does your ERP know one thing while your CRM, SharePoint, spreadsheets, and email know something else?
Company AI requires permissions, security, governance, and control.
If one employee creates a great prompt or AI workflow, can the rest of the organization use it?
If not, you may be building individual AI expertise instead of organizational AI capability.
How Did You Do?
If several of these questions made you uncomfortable, that’s useful.
You’ve identified places where AI may create real business value.
Don’t start with:
“Which AI should we buy?”
Start with:
“Where are our people wasting time because they can’t easily use what our company already knows?”
That’s usually the better AI strategy.