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Chris Baker

Transformation Solutions Lead

High-Level Bio

Expertise

Chris is a highly experienced enterprise transformation executive with a distinguished track record of planning, executing and governing large-scale strategic change initiatives and portfolios at many of the best known financial services firms in the world. Having personally led multiple $BN+ strategic change portfolios, and established Enterprise Program Management functions at AIG and MUFG, Chris brings a unique blend of executive experience, large scale transformation delivery, integrated governance and risk management to his client engagements.   

With multiple decades of applied experience in IT Risk, Cybersecurity & Identity & Access Management, Chris is passionate about helping organizations deploy robust Secure & Responsible AI guardrails to ensure that GenAI efforts don’t expose them to undue risks.

Prior to joining the Accelerated Innovation team, Chris held Managing Director, SVP, and VP-level leadership roles at MUFG, Wells Fargo, MetLife, AIG, and JPMorganChase.

Expertise

  • Enterprise Transformation
  • Scaled Change Management
  • Enterprise Governance & Controls
  • Cybersecurity
  • Identify & Access Management

Defining Your GenAI 'True North' - A Closer Look

Target Duration

< 30 Days

While success with GenAI will be a journey, in the early stages of adoption you’ll need to:

  • What’s all the buzz about, and what does it really mean for my business?
  • How fast do we need to move?
  • Do we have the talent to succeed with GenAI?
  • Can we explore GenAI without exposing the organization to unnecessary risks?
  • Where do we start?

Understanding GenAI

A targeted 2 – 3 hour executive workshop to help you:

    • Rapidly work up the GeAI learning curve
    • Understand its core capabilities
    • Explore its potential value for your business

 

GenAI & Your Industry

A custom GenAI Industry Report to ensure you understand key industry use cases and expected GenAI adoption rates.

Assessing Your GenAI Readiness

A targeted GenAI Readiness survey that will clearly measure your commitment to adopting GenAI and your high-level readiness across the five ‘Keys to Winning’.

Defining a Clear & Compelling Vision to Win with GenAI

A streamlined GenAI Vision development session, with applied examples, to collaboratively define your GenAI Vision in as little as 60 – 90 minutes. 

Defining an Integrated GenAI Strategy & Roadmap - A Closer Look

Target Duration

30 - 60 Days
(depending on leadership availability)

While its potential is compelling, successfully leveraging GenAI will require an integrated approach and sustained collaboration across your company. Virtually every group will have a role to play, and you’ll need to:

  • Define an integrated strategy that solves multiple challenges in parallel
  • Solve for Secure & Responsible AI requirements from the start
  • Build momentum for GenAI adoption while closing foundational talent and capability gaps
  • Embrace iterative innovation and accelerated solution delivery
  • Enable aligned adaptability as ‘what great looks like’ rapidly evolves

Accelerated Innovation has developed a streamlined GenAI strategy development solution that enables our clients to rapidly:

  • Align on a clear and actionable 12 – 18 month ‘Strategic Intent’
  • Define your specific ‘Keys to Winning’ with GenAI
  • Prioritize an integrated portfolio of initiatives, based on your specific needs
  • Identify ‘Quick Win’ opportunities
  • Define clear and aggressive measures of success
  • Identify and mitigate potential GenAI adoption risks
  • Define an actionable and adaptive GenAI Roadmap for accelerated results

 

Igniting Your GenAI Journey - A Closer Look

Target Duration

1-2 Quarters

While success with GenAI will be a journey, in the early stages of adoption you’ll need to:

  • Clearly communicate your GenAI vision and sustain energy and momentum for the change
  • Create a sandbox where team members can safely explore GenAI
  • Bring GenAI capabilities ‘to life’ for your teams with targeted solutions
  • Solve for a wide range of talent and capability gaps
  • Make sure you have the integrated insights to continually optimize your approach

Accelerated Innovation specializes in enabling and maximizing the impact of your GenAI efforts.  Our integrated ‘GenAI Adoption Lift-off’ solution focuses on:

  • Amplifying your GenAI Message to build energy and commitment for the journey
  • Delivering a set of high visibility GenAI ‘Quick Wins’
  • Systematically solving for Secure & Responsible AI requirements
  • Enabling a cohort of GenAI Champions to lead your unique journey
  • Closing key capability gaps to securely and responsibly scale your GenAI efforts
  • Ensuring you have the data-driven insights needed for real-time decision making
  • Establishing a light-weight operating cadence to get aligned, stay aligned, and deliver high-impact results

Accelerating Your GenAI Journey @ Scale - A Closer Look

Target Duration

Varied - depending on your specific scope

GenAI’s real impact occurs when you scale and embed its capabilities within your organization’s ‘core DNA’. To do so, you’ll need to:

  • ‘Productize’ enterprise-class GenAI solutions
  • Streamline innovation and solution delivery across your business
  • Scale your GenAI Talent enablement efforts
  • Scale robust GenAI operations, security and compliance functions
  • Adopt GenAI-enabled productivity enablers across your workforce
  • Accelerate your organization’s operating cadence to compete in an AI-enabled competitive landscape

Accelerated Innovation brings decades of strategic change enablement experience to help clients accelerate and scale their GenAI impact. Our integrated GenAI scaling solutions focus on:

  • End-to-End GenAI solution ‘productization’ and hardening
  • GenAI Innovation and Agile delivery optimization
  • Integrated Talent Enablement and Management, including:
    • Curated learning journeys for internal team members
    • Accelerated Talent Attraction 
    • Targeted 3rd Party Support where delivery pace is critical
  • Enterprise capability design, scaling, and optimization
  • Sustained GenAI transformation and risk management support
  • Scaled GenAI governance and compliance support

Adapting to Outperform with GenAI - A Closer Look

Target Duration

1 - 2 Quarters
(with on-going support as needed)

The pace of business is only accelerating, and leaders everywhere are working to keep pace. To compete in a GenAI-enabled world, you’ll need to:

  • Leverage real-time insights for data-driven decision making across your business
  • Continually monitor 3rd Party GenAI innovation, competitor actions, and evolving regulatory mandates
  • Iteratively adapt your GenAI strategy, plans and tactics
  • Accelerate your innovation and delivery of GenAI-enabled solutions
  • Deliver improved top and bottom-line results to compete

Enabling improved strategic adaptability is a core focus and passion for the Accelerated Innovation team. We partner with our clients to:

  • Architect integrated measurement strategies for improved real-time insights 
  • Leverage OKRs for increased clarity, alignment, focus and measurability across their GenAI efforts
  • Adopt quarterly Strategy and Planning cadences for improved alignment and adaptability
  • Embrace Outcome-based Roadmaps to clearly define their ‘True North’, while maintaining solution flexibility and pace

Closing Targeted GenAI Gaps to Maximize your Impact - A Closer Look

Target Duration

Varied - based on your specific needs and scope

Targeted gaps in GenAI talent and capabilities can significantly impact your results. Common challenges include (but are not limited):
  • Integrated GenAI Strategy
  • GenAI Talent Management
  • Master Data Management
  • GenAI Innovation Acceleration
  • GenAI Security
  • Adaptive Quarterly Planning
  • GenAI Architecture
  • GenAI Transformation Leadership
  • GenAI UX Design
  • GenAI Product Management
  • LLM Monitoring
  • GenAI Governance

Accelerated Innovation offers targeted, custom solutions to close specific client GenAI gaps, including:

  • GenAI Vision, Strategy & Roadmaps
  • Packaged GenAI ‘Quick Wins’
  • Integrated GenAI Talent Management
  • GenAI Capability Design and Scaling
  • GenAI Innovation & Agile Solution Delivery
  • Integrated GenAI Transformation & Risk Management
  • Integrated GenAI Measurement & Insights solutions
  • Adaptive Strategy, Planning & Governance practices