The AI-Enabled Cost Transformation Playbook: Lessons from Winning Transformations
After leading multiple transformations across corporates and venture-backed businesses, here's the uncomfortable truth: many businesses are approaching AI-enabled cost transformation based on their digital transformation corporate memory.
The result? RoIs below 5%.
The New Rules of Cost Transformation
The game has fundamentally changed. While most executives tinker with process automation and basic AI implementations, market leaders are completely reimagining their cost structures through AI-first architectures.
The Critical Success Factors:
2. Customer First Focus
Real transformation starts with one question: What creates actual value for your customers?
3. AI Beyond Automation
The New AI-Enabled Transformation Blueprint
Here's how client is on track to achieving a 38% cost reduction while improving key customer metrics:
2. Transform Decision-Making
3. Upskill Your Organization
The Leadership Imperative
Success requires more than technology. You need:
The Next Five Years
The biggest value transfer in business history is coming. Organizations that embrace AI-enabled transformation will capture disproportionate value. Those that don't will become case studies in disruption.
Ready to transform? Drop "AI Transform" in the DM for the detailed playbook.
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1 周You spent $100M on your AI transformation but Janet still uses Excel 97 <- Love it!
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1 周The secret sauce isn't fancy AI tools - it's getting Janet to actually use them, so DM'ing for that playbook because my team needs this yesterday.
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1 周Yes, this is how Karla Kannan and I ended up signing up for our LinkedIn live. And it was almost exactly that example. I will say, the 70% failure rate is universal, not specific to AI transformations - but that doesn't make it any better. Especially with the kinds of money people are throwing at AI. You add in the fact that even those 30% "successful" transformations end up capturing only about 68% of expected financial benefits and you're left with a lot of wasted money. And likely a lot of frustration from employees who don't want to be part of change for change's sake.
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1 周The real win comes from helping people embrace AI tools, not just throwing money at fancy systems - DM'ing to get the full playbook!