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AI business and technology enablement
Before investing in Artificial Intelligence solutions, businesses need to understand whether their current capabilities—technical, cultural, operational, and financial—can support successful AI adoption. Rushing into AI implementation without foundational readiness often results in failed implementation, underutilised technologies, misaligned use cases, or failed benefit realisation. Thus, the necessity of an AI readiness assessment is pivotal to avoid bottlenecks and failures.
What is an AI Readiness assesement?
We blend deep technical expertise with industry insights in an AI readiness programmes that drive real, measurable outcomes. Our approach:
- Tailored Assessments: We evaluate your current state—data, systems, teams, and objectives—to develop a roadmap uniquely suited to your organisation.
- Holistic approach: We align AI strategy with your business vision, ensuring seamless integration by focusing on the outcome driving the people, processes, and technology.
- Trusted guidance: We are independent and our experts guide you every step of the way, ensuring ethical AI deployment that meets compliance and governance standards.
The assessment is a 4-day engagement, with elements comprising interviews, face to face meetings, surveys, and business process analysis. Your strategic goals are the anchor. Our assessment ensures AI initiatives align seamlessly with your business objectives, providing a foundation for a successful AI integration.
The outcome is a comprehensive roadmap, gap analysis and strategy with clear next steps for how to adopt AI to deliver value for you, your customers, and your staff.
Why AI Readiness matters?
Like any technology – AI will delivering limited value if poorly implemented. The challenge most organisations fail to recognise and address is that the value of AI is as much about embracing cultural change as it is technology. Without proper alignment between business strategy, people and processes, AI initiatives fail to deliver value. Being AI-ready means:
- Understanding how AI aligns with your business strategy and objectives.
- Identifying high-impact use cases that can drive immediate value.
- Establishing trust and governance in AI adoption.
- Equipping your workforce to collaborate effectively with AI-powered tools and embrace the fundamental change to future work practices.
Uncover the potential AI offers your business with Beyond Technology's bespoke AI Readiness Assessment. Navigate the complexities of the impending AI transformation confidently as our seasoned experts provide you with a clear, actionable roadmap tailored specifically to your organisation’s objectives and infrastructure.
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Our business outcomes
Beyond Technology advise businesses on how to optimise the use of IT to achieve business outcomes.
Beyond Technology Consulting has several ways to help CFO’s and CIO’s to improve their organisation’s balance sheet. Our consultants are highly skilled in identifying how to optimise your IT costs to ensure that you are taking advantage of the technology available to your organisation.
Many organisations carry a significant IT failure risk without understanding either the potential or consequences of failure. Quantifying the latent risk, and taking steps to mitigate it not only makes good business sense, it often provides significant improvement in the efficiency and availability of “business as usual” IT service.
With the growing demands on IT departments it can be all too easy to focus on rapidly expanding capability and addressing the day-to-day challenges of running the technology. Properly aligning IT to direct business requirements, while improving the communication channels between IT and the business delivers massive efficiency and capability improvements.
Digital and Technology enablement is critical to all business's growth plans, and without appropriate IT foundations and planning your growth journey will be lost at sea. Aligning your technology planning to your business strategy and ensuring appropriate priority is given to future enablement projects makes a decisive difference to your business growth plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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In most professions where information is asymmetric (i.e. the professional could take advantage of knowing more about the subject that they are advising you on) such as Lawyers and Doctors, the governing body can deregister the professional as stop them from practicing. This does not happen with Technology professionals so conflict of interest is a critical problem. Similarly when a technologist is heavily invested in one specific technology it often becomes their go-to solution (to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail). By Maintaining our independence, Beyond Technology Consulting ensures that you are provided with unbiased and actionable advice that you can trust is free from conflict of interest and be assured that we are not monetising the advice that we provide you.
"Actionable Advice" is accessible, accurate and is advice that is provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand. We ensure that our recommendations are fit-for-purpose with an understanding of the context of your organisation to be both affordable and achievable.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This ensures that you don't end up with a solution looking for a problem and ensures that technology outcomes will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This combined with a bias towards flexible technology solutions helps to provide technology outcomes that will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
There are two key reasons that organisations don't undertake regular independent technology reviews. Firstly many boards and executive don't know that organisations like Beyond Technology Consulting exist and they are left thinking that the only options are IT Audits that are provided by the big accounting firms that don't provide any answers or actionable advice. The second reason is that they don't feel that they understand enough about IT to be able to get value from a review. Beyond Technology Consulting understands this and have designed our organisation to provide "Actionable Advice" that is accessible, accurate and provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand.
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