Artificial Intelligence Journey – Install

Combined Intelligence are specialists in Automation, Artificial Intelligence and related Intelligent Technologies. We have a team with many years of practical experience successfully leading the creation of centres of excellence, building effective delivery teams, and implementing innovative solutions that transform how businesses operate and enhance the products and services they deliver to their customers. Our experience is first-hand and not just as consultants.

We have seen many organisations struggle to achieve the full range of AI benefits and we believe we can help these organisations by resolving the challenges that are blocking their success and by identifying opportunities to go further. On our AI Journey page, we describe how organisations need to go on a journey (from identifying the need through to AI-everywhere) to achieve the full range and extent of AI benefits. We split this overall journey into three phases called Build, Scale and Evolve.

Under our Install initiative, we focus on how Combined Intelligence can help organisations in the Build phase of this journey, this includes organisations at any step of their journey from having no capability but an identified need for AI through to organisations who have built a capability but are either struggling to achieve the benefits they expected or need reassurance that they’re on the right path.

The initial build phase of the journey includes:

1. Need – Recognising the need for artificial intelligence across the organisation.
2. Vision – Setting an incremental vision for AI and the benefits expected to be achieved.
3. Innovate – Delivering the first few innovation inspired use-cases for AI

If you have already successfully created a good collection of initial AI use-cases delivering real benefit, then please see our Intensify and Infuse initiatives which describe how we can help organisations further on in their AI adoption journey:

• Intensify – How to scale an existing programme and take it to the next level.
• Infuse – How to evolve artificial intelligence into the DNA of the organisation.

The objective of our Install package is to deliver rapid guidance and recommendations to clients within a 3–4 week elapsed period. We achieve this by following these steps (tailoring our approach based on your input):

1. Understand the organisation’s current state (step within the Build phase) and scope Install objectives appropriately:
   1. Achieved through conversations and virtual workshops with primary stakeholders.
   2. Produces an agreed scope of work including commitments on timescales and resource availability.
2. Assess the current state and capability:
   1. Conversations (audio/video conferencing) with key stakeholders
   2. Perform an assessment of current documentation (as provided by key stakeholders).
   3. Review current progress, via screen share sessions.
   4. Identify key challenges and opportunities.
3. Deliver outcomes:
   1. Construct guidance and recommendations, review and agree with primary stakeholders.
   2. Present and share the outcomes to key stakeholders and senior management.

Our Install package is an introduction to our capabilities and allows us to demonstrate the value we can bring. We therefore only charge an introductory fee, to us the most important thing is to establish a relationship and to deliver real value through this initial engagement.

This is aligned with our organisational values:

•  Trust – Inspire and demonstrate trust.
•  Honesty – Be honest and open at all times.
•  Respect – Show respect, encourage and reward.
•  Innovation – Think outside the box.
•  Value – Ensure real value in everything we do.
•  Exploration – Go beyond what’s been done before.

With these values we’ll THRIVE together.