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Build a roadmap to accelerate AI adoption and measurable ROI
Struggling to turn AI vision into real-world business impact? You’re not alone. CIOs, IT leaders, and line-of-business executives grapple with ongoing challenges across data quality, integration, governance, security, infrastructure, and skills gaps. Without clear guidance, execution stalls.
SHI’s AI Readiness Workshop helps you cut through complexity and turn uncertainty into action fast. We guide your teams to Imagine, Experiment, Adopt, and scale AI solutions using a structured framework that delivers measurable outcomes and quantifiable ROI.
Projected impact from recent workshops
What is the AI Readiness Workshop?
A complimentary, 60–90-minute interactive session for business and technical stakeholders. You’ll gain the ability to assess your current state, uncover actionable insights, and co-create a strategic roadmap for transformation across four critical pillars:
AI-ready Business
Unlock business value by aligning AI strategy, governance, and data readiness, supported by clear guardrails and the organizational capabilities needed to scale.
AI-ready Data
Ensure data is being centralized and governed to enable the feasibility of AI use cases.
AI-ready Security
Understand emerging AI-driven attack vectors and strengthen your governance, guardrails, and security posture to defend against threats and exploits
AI-ready Infrastructure
Understand the technology stack required to run and operate AI workloads.
What you’ll get
We share proven best practices to help identify gaps, uncover opportunities, and define actionable next steps.
Tailored, actionable deliverables include:
- Executive summary of findings and maturity baseline.
- Detailed workshop results across business, data, security, and infrastructure.
- Prioritized recommendations aligned to your maturity level.
- Clear timeline to value for quick wins and long-term success.
- Solution mapping and business drivers with suggested KPIs.
- Action plan that empowers leadership to drive transformation with confidence.
Why it matters
Our methodology benchmarks capabilities across the four pillars using a maturity rubric from gap (no capability) to optimized (industry-leading).
You’ll receive:
- Visual readiness scores for easy tracking and executive communication.
- Targeted recommendations tied to measurable business impact.
- Short-term wins including faster decisions, reduced manual processes, and improved data trust.
- Outcomes that matter, including higher efficiency, reliable data, and accelerated, AI-driven growth.
Who should attend
Wide participation ensures a holistic view of your organization’s AI readiness and fosters alignment across technical and business units.
Designed for C-level executives and senior leaders responsible for:
- Infrastructure strategy and platform selection.
- Application workload deployment.
- Technology governance, compliance, and risk management.
- Line of business stakeholders.
Key benefits
Strategic planning
- Align your business goals with prioritized initiatives tied to the KPIs and outcomes that matter most.
- Integrate business and data strategies to accelerate ROI-focused AI initiatives.
- Create a prioritized roadmap balancing quick wins with long-term objectives.
- Receive budget planning guidance that supports phased, high impact implementation.
Technical foundation
- Gain critical insight into emerging AI adoption needs, benefits, challenges and threats.
- Learn how to safeguard your organization with proactive risk management strategies.
- Navigate data and infrastructure requirements for scalable AI workloads.
- Assess your organization’s AI literacy and readiness to adopt AI successfully.
Our capability scoring methodology links every recommendation to measurable outcomes, from faster decision making and improved operational performance to better customer experiences.
Experts
Aaron Richmond
Enterprise Architect, Applied AI
Rodney Campbell
Solutions Lead, AI
Derek Honn
Solutions Lead, AI
Kevin McCarey
Solutions Lead, AI
Michael Miraftab
Solutions Lead, AI
Dave Molinaro
Solutions Specialist, AI