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Exploring GenAI as a Growth Catalyst for Your Business

Description

This capability focuses on how organizations can harness GenAI to accelerate revenue growth. It involves identifying high-impact opportunities in areas like product innovation, marketing, and sales enablement. By exploring GenAI as a growth catalyst, organizations can begin to reimagine how value is created and delivered to customers.

Why it's Important

Most organizations recognize GenAI’s transformative potential, but few have a clear plan to leverage it for top-line growth. Without intentional focus, growth-related opportunities may be overlooked in favor of operational or cost-centric use cases. Exploring GenAI as a growth catalyst helps organizations uncover new revenue streams, enhance customer targeting, and personalize offerings. It sets the stage for scalable, innovation-led value creation and ensures GenAI investment aligns with business growth priorities.

Why it's Challenging @ Scale

  • Unclear Ownership: Growth initiatives often span multiple teams, making it hard to assign clear responsibility for GenAI exploration.
  • Misaligned Priorities: Existing functions may prioritize efficiency or risk reduction over top-line growth, limiting support for growth-focused GenAI use cases.
  • Limited Commercial Imagination: Teams may struggle to envision how GenAI can drive revenue, especially beyond traditional sales or marketing functions.
  • Data & Integration Barriers: GenAI-driven growth often depends on combining data across systems – a challenge for many organizations.
  • Pace of Change: Rapid innovation in GenAI makes it difficult to assess and act on emerging growth opportunities in time.

Complexity

High: Unlocking GenAI’s growth potential requires strong cross-functional collaboration, commercial creativity, and robust data infrastructure.

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Taking Action

Though most organizations begin their GenAI journey with significant knowledge gaps, there are targeted actions that can be taken to accelerate the process. Select your group’s current maturity, based on your assessment results, and act today.

  • Explore Key Concepts & Best Practices: Complete the Defining Your Vision to Win with GenAI workshop (2 hrs.) to understand foundational key concepts and explore applied best practices.
  • Identifying Strategic GenAI Opportunities.
  • Establishing Guiding Principles for Vision Execution.
  • Mapping GenAI Vision to Business Capabilities.
  • Activating Cross-Functional GenAI Leadership.
  • Measuring Early Indicators of Vision Success.
  • Define Your Action Plan: Outline concrete, prioritized steps your organization will take to accelerate your GenAI as a Growth Catalyst efforts.

Jumpstarting Your Plan

  • Define your accountable lead(s), their roles, responsibilities, and committed capacity
  • Deliver your first 90-day quick wins
  • Configure your Delta 7/28 Plan module
  • Define your measures of success and insights plan
  • Build and kick off your change and comms plan

Targeted Activities

  • Build your GenAI KPI tree and value driver map.
  • Stand up your benefits & KPI tree and value tracking dashboard.
  • Publish your messaging, positioning, and proof pack (value story + ROI + trust).
  • Deliver Quick Wins: Small, high-impact GenAI projects that can demonstrate tangible value in a short time frame.
  • Identify GenAI Opportunities Across the Revenue Funnel: Review where GenAI can accelerate lead generation, conversion, or upselling.
  • Launch a Growth-Focused Pilot: Test GenAI in a live growth use case (e.g., marketing personalization or product recommendation engine).
  • Highlight Early Wins to Build Momentum: Package and share early success stories to energize teams and stakeholders.
  • Complete one or more of our Deep Dive Courses: Begin exploring key concepts and best practices, including:
  • Nail It Before You Scale It: Assess and optimize your solution or process before adopting it at scale.
  • Assess Your Proposed Solution or Process: Evaluate your GenAI pilots to ensure they directly support growth-related goals and customer needs.
  • Define in-scope Processes and Guardrails: Establish clear rules for how growth-focused GenAI solutions will be used, ensuring compliance and accountability.
  • Close any Data or Measurement Gaps: Confirm that appropriate KPIs, feedback loops, and attribution models are in place to track impact and refine results.
  • Define Your Adoption & Scaling Plan: Create a structured roadmap for how GenAI solutions will be rolled out across teams, workflows, or business units.
  • Define Your Phased Implementation Plan: Map out how GenAI-driven growth initiatives will be introduced, starting with high-potential use cases.
  • Build Awareness and Finalize Enablers: Prepare sales, marketing, and product teams with the training, resources, and tools needed to scale effectively.
  • Operationalize Your Comms Plan: Ensure regular updates, case studies, and engagement activities to keep teams aligned and excited about GenAI’s growth potential.
  • Formalize Your Best Practices: Document and standardize what’s working to ensure consistent, scalable success across teams and use cases.
  • Document Growth Wins & Lessons Learned: Capture how GenAI is impacting revenue, customer acquisition, or market expansion.
  • Develop Playbooks & Training: Create reusable assets that teach teams how to apply GenAI to growth-focused challenges.
  • Form a Growth Catalyst Community: Establish a cross-functional forum where teams can share growth use cases, results, and ideas.
  • Accelerate Your Adoption: Intensify efforts to embed GenAI across your organization by expanding use cases, increasing user engagement, and removing adoption barriers.
  • Expand GenAI Use Across Growth Levers: Identify additional sales, product, and marketing opportunities to apply proven GenAI approaches.
  • Enable Commercial Teams with Tools & Support: Provide templates, success examples, and technical support to help teams activate GenAI quickly.
  • Eliminate Growth Blockers: Remove barriers like limited data access or lack of customer insight that slow the scale-up of GenAI initiatives.
  • Celebrate Your Wins: Publicly acknowledge team accomplishments to build and sustain adoption momentum.
  • Highlight Revenue Milestones: Share achievements like pipeline growth or faster sales cycles attributed to GenAI.
  • Share Growth Impact Stories: Tell concrete stories of how GenAI has helped unlock new customer segments or improve conversion rates.
  • Recognize Growth Champions: Celebrate individuals or teams who are driving GenAI-powered business growth.
  • Streamline & Embed: Integrate GenAI into core workflows while eliminating friction points to make usage seamless and routine.
  • Embed Growth-Centric GenAI Into Daily Routines: Ensure sales, marketing, and product teams use GenAI tools in day-to-day growth workflows.
  • Simplify Growth Workflows Through AI Enablement: Refine processes so teams can easily access and use GenAI without delays or dependencies.
  • Monitor and Optimize for Scalable Impact: Regularly evaluate GenAI-enabled growth activities and make adjustments to maximize ROI.
  • Leverage Automation: Use GenAI-powered tools and workflows to streamline repetitive tasks, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce manual effort.
  • Automate Growth Operations Tasks: Use GenAI to handle lead scoring, email generation, and reporting to free up teams for strategic growth work.
  • Adopt Advanced AI Tools to Scale Impact: Integrate GenAI solutions such as intelligent CRMs or campaign optimizers to extend team capacity.
  • Continuously Expand Your Tech Stack: Evaluate and deploy new GenAI innovations that improve your commercial engine.
  • Evolve & Further Accelerate: Continuously refine GenAI strategies based on insights and outcomes, while expanding into more complex or high-impact use cases.
  • Monitor Market Shifts & Competitive Moves: Stay ahead by tracking how others in your industry are leveraging GenAI for growth and adjusting accordingly.
  • Expand Into New Growth Domains: Apply GenAI to uncover whitespace opportunities in pricing, partnerships, or customer expansion.
  • Iterate on Your Growth Vision: Use performance data to evolve your strategy and keep your organization aligned around the next wave of growth.

Key "Watchouts"

  • Chasing Hype Over Impact: Prioritizing trendy use cases over those tied to real customer or revenue outcomes.
  • Neglecting Measurement: Failing to define success metrics makes it difficult to track growth impact and scale what works.
  • Overloading Commercial Teams: Introducing GenAI tools without streamlining existing processes can create confusion and inefficiency.
  • Underestimating Change Management: Teams may resist new ways of working without adequate training, communication, and support.
  • Isolating Growth from Strategy: Growth-focused GenAI efforts that are disconnected from broader strategy risk becoming siloed or unsustainable.

Targeted Benefits

  • Accelerated Revenue Generation: GenAI enables faster lead conversion, higher customer engagement, and more tailored offerings.
  • Stronger Market Differentiation: Unique, AI-enhanced experiences can create competitive advantage.
  • Increased Team Capacity: Automating repetitive tasks frees commercial teams to focus on strategic priorities.
  • Faster Experimentation Cycles: GenAI enables rapid testing of messages, campaigns, and pricing models.
  • Greater Strategic Alignment: Growth use cases aligned with business goals ensure GenAI delivers meaningful outcomes.

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