Chapter 4. What’s Your Plan?
Once you’ve picked a lane, you need to ensure that your plan is consistent with your positioning. In this chapter, I start by outlining the key stakeholders to align with and then propose some thoughts for thinking about delivering practical plans for tool approval, hiring, setting the tone and change management/enablement whether you’re planning to be an innovator, early adopter, or an early or late majority adopter of AI in the SDLC.
Aligning Across the Org
In addition to picking a lane, it’s also important to align tactically with your stakeholders to ensure that your strategy is supported by your tactical plan. Key stakeholders include:
- The board
They need to understand your positioning and the impact that it will have on all aspects of your business - whether that’s the technology risks of being an innovator on the bleeding edge of AI adoption or the competitive risks of choosing a late majority/laggard positioning.
- The CEO
For CEOs, it’s hard not to talk a ...
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