Successfully implementing an artificial intelligence strategy demands a holistic, end-to-end approach—one that uncovers meaningful insights, evaluates current capabilities, pinpoints critical gaps and charts a clear course toward a more advanced and scalable AI future state.
Strategic AI starts here
Where to begin with your AI strategy?
To help your organization take a strategic and structured approach to AI readiness, RSM offers a tailored AI Readiness Assessment. This four-week engagement delivers a comprehensive roadmap and implementation plan, along with an in-depth evaluation of your current AI maturity—benchmarked against industry best practices and your desired future state.
The assessment culminates in a detailed AI readiness report that outlines key findings, strategic recommendations and prioritized next steps to guide your organization toward its target AI maturity level.
Whether you’re establishing or enhancing your AI strategy, the readiness assessment provides actionable recommendations and a clear path forward. Following the assessment, RSM offers continued support through hands-on development to implement solutions, optimize performance and drive your broader AI transformation journey.
What’s included with the AI Readiness Assessment?
Phase 1: AI Readiness Assessment
Initiation and discovery
Define project objectives and scope with key stakeholders. Gather relevant documentation, plan interviews and deploy surveys to capture critical insights.
AI analysis
Engage stakeholders to uncover AI trends, identify relevant use cases and assess current infrastructure, highlighting opportunities for improvement and advancement.
Gap analysis
Evaluate current capabilities against future goals to build a prioritized AI strategy. Identify gaps in governance, infrastructure and readiness using a proven AI framework.
Prioritization and roadmap
Create a strategic AI roadmap aligned with business value, cost and feasibility. Build an AI readiness checklist and implementation plan, validating with stakeholders.
Phase 2: AI transformation
Implementation
Execute the roadmap: Establish the IT environment, roll out initiatives, train teams, develop new processes and procedures, implement security controls and conduct rigorous testing.
Optimization
Post-implementation, monitor performance against KPIs. Gather feedback, track results and continuously refine your AI initiatives for sustained impact and long-term value.
From readiness to ROI: Realize the benefits of the
AI Readiness Assessment
We recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all AI strategy. That’s why we deliver tailored AI strategies designed to accelerate progress while staying aligned with your broader business vision. Our approach empowers your organization to:
- Gain enhanced insights into AI readiness, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.
- Achieve strategic alignment of AI initiatives with long-term business goals and enterprise priorities.
- Improve ROI visibility through refined analytical frameworks that measure financial impact and value.
- Develop robust, data-backed business cases that articulate the benefits and operational gains of AI adoption.
- Implement efficient automation strategies that reduce costs, improve speed and boost productivity.
- Optimize resource allocation to maximize return on high-impact AI initiatives.
- Establish a structured governance model encompassing policies, risk mitigation and responsible AI standards.
- Enhance workforce readiness through focused resource planning, upskilling and continuous learning programs.
Frequently asked questions
An AI Readiness Assessment is a tool to help evaluate how prepared an organization is to adopt and scale AI. It typically measures areas like data quality, infrastructure, talent, strategy and governance. The results help identify gaps and guide planning for successful AI implementation.
AI readiness is the ability of an organization to effectively adopt and implement AI technologies. It includes having the right data, tools, talent and strategy in place. A high level of readiness means an organization can confidently scale AI for real business value while managing risks.
Ready to take the next step toward AI maturity?
This assessment, designed to help your organization initiate AI implementation or advance your AI maturity, aligns your strategic focus with your long-term business goals.
Connect with RSM’s AI advisors to discover how our AI Readiness Assessment can help your organization strengthen and refine your AI strategy.
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