Create Your Keys to Winning GenAI Operating Model
Understand the operating model choices that separate GenAI momentum from GenAI frustration. Align teams, remove friction, and build a more repeatable path to AI impact across the business.
Key GenAI Operating Model Challenges
Without a clear GenAI operating model, scale gets messy fast—ownership blurs, expertise bottlenecks, and leaders struggle to decide where to intervene first.
Are we...
Is our GenAI operating model clear enough to scale?
Where are ownership gaps slowing execution?
Which capabilities are bottlenecking GenAI impact?
Where is GenAI creating measurable value?
Are disconnected experiments draining strategic focus?
The Bottom-Line
GenAI scales when leaders can see the whole system, focus the right capabilities, and act with confidence.
Turn GenAI ambition into an operating model built to win
Built to clarify what it takes to scale GenAI, our Keys to Winning Operating Model helps leaders systematically accelerate and de-risk their GenAI journey.
Keys to Winning
Operating Model
Launch Pad
Launch Pad
Weeks 1 - 4
Baseline Your Readiness
Develop a clear measure of your current state readiness including:
- Structured 1:1 discovery sessions to clarify priorities, adoption maturity, and scaling constraints
- A targeted readiness scan to assess your baseline readiness
- An executive brief covering GenAI adoption and scaling best practices and their implications
2 Hr. Leadership Alignment & Action Planning Session
A high-impact leadership working session focused on:
- Introducing a scalable approach to accelerating and scaling your GenAI impact
- Exploring applied Use Cases, adoption best practices, and key “Watch Outs”
- Aligning on an actionable scaling plan
Keys to Winning
Operating Model
Mission Control & Lift-Off
Mission Control & Lift-Off
Weeks 5 - 12
Benchmark Assessment + Acceleration Guides
Develop a clear view of the GenAI Keys to Winning Operating Model, including:
- Identifying and prioritizing key GenAI Operating Model gaps
- Exploring our 23 GenAI Operating Model Acceleration Guides
- Leveraging a GenAI Strategist-led planning session to define your action plan
Define your readiness assessment + enablement needs and plan for your GenAI Operating Model
Explore core concepts & methods in our GenAI Operating Model certification series, including:
- An Introduction to High-Impact GenAI Visions
- Defining Your GenAI Strategy & Acceleration Plan
- An Introduction to Productizing High-Impact GenAI Solutions
- Developing the GenAI Capabilities to Win
- An Introduction to GenAI Insights Best Practices
- Co-deliver quick wins to “make it stick†and accelerate your target state delivery goals
Keys to Winning
Operating Model
Mission Accelerate
Mission Accelerate
Weeks 12+
Scaling Play Book Design & Implementation
Configure and operationalize your scaling approach, including:
- Configuring and customizing your GenAI Operating Model scaling playbook
- Operationalizing your GenAI Operating Model Target Operating Model (TOM)
- Optimizing and evolving your TOM
Insights Design & Implementation Support
Turn data into insights and insights into action by:
- Configuring and customizing your GenAI Op Model metrics and insights plan
- Operationalizing your GenAI Op Model Insights Plan and Operational Processes
- Optimizing and evolving your insights
Weekly Quick Wins
An actionable set of applied Quick Wins to build and sustain momentum, structured as:
- < 30 Days Wins: Lightly configurable resources and solutions
- 30 – 60 Day Wins: Lightly customizable Quick Wins
- 60 – 90 Day Wins: Increasingly high value Quick Win deliverables
Your Acceleration Plan
- Baseline how your GenAI Op Model works today, where scale breaks down, and what resources you already have
- Tailor the plan to the operating model shifts, sequencing, and ownership decisions that matter most
- Deliver Quick Wins, build capability, and scale priority solutions through one integrated plan
Your Comms Plan
- dentify your priority stakeholders, communication needs, and op model alignment gaps
- Configure and deliver a tailored GenAI op model comms plan, custom Comms Hub, and role-specific enablement assets
- Build and sustain momentum with explainers, demos, videos, and proof points.
Your Change Plan
- Define your quarterly GenAI Operating Model review, optimization, and adaptation process
- Enable quarterly strategy and scaling plan updates, with rapid response to major market, innovation, and competitor shifts
- Keep your GenAI Operating Model evergreen by reducing friction, adapting quickly, and continuously optimizing your approach.
On-Demand Coaching
- Identify where your teams need targeted coaching to overcome operating model, alignment, or execution gaps
- Deliver tailored expert support, working sessions, and practical guidance
- Help your teams strengthen the operating model, build confidence faster, and keep your GenAI Operating Model efforts moving forward
Choose Your On-Ramp...
Choose the starting point that fits your GenAI operating model urgency, maturity, and scope—from alignment to quick wins or a full playbook.
An Accelerated Alignment & Action Planning Sprint
A fast-paced leadership alignment and action planning sprint to:
- Baseline your current GenAI Operating Model maturity
- Explore best practices
- Align on top priorities
- Define your path forward
- Identify near-term Quick Wins
Accelerate & De-Risk Your GenAI Operating Model Journey
Confidently scale your GenAI Operating Model with a tailored TOM that helps your organization win with GenAI.
Targeted GenAI Operating Model Solutions
Rapidly solve targeted GenAI Operating Model scaling challenges, including:
- Baseline your current operating model and alignment gaps
- Solve a high-priority operating model challenge
- Clarify your target structure and priorities
- Align on practical actions to move forward
- Deliver focused progress in a matter of weeks
“Within weeks, we aligned on the GenAI capabilities that mattered most and made more progress in one quarter than the previous year.”
Chief Transformation Officer, Fortune 500 client
Outcomes you can expect
Clarity
Create a clearer view of the capabilities, roles, and operating requirements needed to win with GenAI.
Scalability
Build a stronger operating model foundation that can support broader GenAI adoption, complexity, and growth over time.
Trust
Strengthen confidence that your GenAI operating model can support effective collaboration, decision-making, and execution.
Speed
Improve your ability to move faster by reducing operating friction and clarifying how work should happen across teams.
Impact
Turn a stronger GenAI operating model into better execution, broader adoption, and more meaningful business results.
Complimentary Resources
Curious About What “Great Looks Like”?
Review our “GenAI Operating Model” Whitepaper
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Complete our GenAI Operating Model Scan or Assessment
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Click here to check out our library of YouTube videosFrequently Asked Questions
1. Why do this now?
2. What will we get?
3. Will it work here?
4. How do we make it real?
5. How do we make it stick?
- Why do we need a GenAI operating model now?
Because GenAI won’t scale through fragmented efforts—an operating model aligns how leaders govern, enable, and accelerate adoption. - What outcomes should we expect from this work?
Sharper priorities, tighter alignment, faster execution, and a scalable path to GenAI value. - What happens if we don’t define a GenAI operating model early?
Teams duplicate work, miss dependencies, and struggle to scale GenAI with consistency or control.
- What do you mean by a “GenAI operating model”?
A practical model for how leadership, capabilities, and execution work together to scale GenAI. - What are the main deliverables from this work?
A clear operating model, priority capabilities, and an execution path. - What do “Quick Wins” look like in GenAI Operating Model work?
Clarify priority capabilities, align leaders, and sequence the first moves.
- Does this only apply to organizations early in their GenAI journey?
No—it works for new efforts and established programs that need clearer enterprise coordination. - Can this work across multiple business units and functions?
Yes—it aligns business units and functions around one operating model without forcing identical execution. - Does this cover more than use case prioritization?
Yes—it covers capabilities, decision rights, and execution—not just use-case choices.
- How do you decide which GenAI capabilities matter most?
We focus on the capabilities that create the most value and remove the biggest scaling blockers. - How do you keep the operating model from becoming too theoretical?
We tie it to business priorities, decision rights, and the capabilities needed to scale. - How does this connect to GenAI vision and strategy?
It turns vision and strategy into clear roles, choices, and ways of working.
- Who should be involved from our side?
Senior business, product, and technology leaders, plus owners of priority GenAI capabilities and execution. - How do you align leaders with different priorities?
We force clear tradeoffs so leaders align on the capabilities that matter most. - How do we sustain this after the initial work is done?
We turn it into a standing guide for roadmap, investment, and capability decisions.
Scale GenAI with More Confidence