AI TRAINING
AI Transformation Roadmap Design Workshop
Leave with a sequenced, dependency-mapped AI roadmap your leadership team has co-created and owns.
What it covers
A facilitated 2-day working session that takes transformation leaders and their teams from scattered initiative ideas to a structured, prioritised roadmap. Participants conduct a maturity baseline assessment, inventory existing and planned AI initiatives, map interdependencies, and agree on a phased sequencing logic. The workshop closes with a communications plan and governance skeleton so momentum is sustained after the room disperses. Roughly 70% of time is hands-on facilitated exercises using the organisation's own data and context.
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct an AI maturity baseline assessment using a structured diagnostic framework and identify the organisation's top capability gaps
- Build a consolidated initiative inventory scored against value, effort, and strategic alignment criteria
- Produce a dependency map that surfaces sequencing constraints and critical-path blockers across the portfolio
- Draft a phased 12-to-24-month roadmap with clear milestones, owners, and success metrics
- Design a stakeholder communication plan that addresses resistance and sustains executive sponsorship post-workshop
Topics covered
- AI maturity baseline assessment and gap analysis
- Initiative inventory and value/effort mapping
- Dependency mapping and sequencing logic
- Portfolio prioritisation frameworks (e.g. WSJF, impact/feasibility matrix)
- Change management and stakeholder communications planning
- Governance structure and decision-rights design
- Quick-win identification versus long-horizon bets
- Roadmap visualisation and executive narrative construction
Delivery
Delivered in-person or as a hybrid format with remote participants joining via facilitated breakout tools (Miro or equivalent). Two facilitators are recommended for groups above 12. Pre-work is required: participants complete a 30-minute maturity survey and submit their initiative list 5 business days in advance. Physical or virtual workbooks are provided. Day 1 focuses on diagnosis and inventory; Day 2 on sequencing, governance, and communications. A 2-week follow-up virtual session (2 hours) to pressure-test the draft roadmap is strongly recommended and can be added as an optional module.
What makes it work
- Securing C-level sponsorship before the workshop so sequencing decisions carry real authority
- Using the organisation's actual initiative list and real cost/effort estimates rather than hypothetical scenarios
- Assigning a named roadmap owner who attends the full two days and commits to a 90-day review cadence
- Pairing the roadmap with a lightweight governance forum that meets monthly to re-prioritise based on new information
Common mistakes
- Inviting too many contributors without a clear decision-making owner, leading to a roadmap nobody actually owns post-workshop
- Skipping the pre-work maturity survey so Day 1 is consumed by data gathering rather than diagnosis
- Sequencing initiatives by enthusiasm rather than dependency logic, creating bottlenecks six months later
- Producing a beautifully designed roadmap slide deck that is never operationalised into a governance or programme cadence
When NOT to take this
This workshop is not the right fit when an organisation has not yet run any AI pilots and has no cross-functional team with authority to make portfolio decisions — in that situation a foundational AI awareness programme for leadership should come first.
Providers to consider
- McKinsey & Company (QuantumBlack)www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/how-we-help-clients →
- Wavestonewww.wavestone.com/en/service/digital-transformation/ →
- Sopra Steria Consultingwww.soprasteria.com/services/consulting →
- Accenture Song (Strategy & Consulting)www.accenture.com/gb-en/services/strategy →
Sources
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