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Understanding the Keys to Winning with GenAI

Description

Understanding the Keys to Winning with GenAI equips organizations with a clear, actionable framework for successful GenAI adoption. This capability helps teams grasp the critical mindsets, priorities, and approaches needed to drive meaningful results with GenAI.

Why it's Important

Without a shared understanding of what it takes to succeed with GenAI, organizations risk fragmented efforts, missed opportunities, and slow progress. The Keys to Winning provide a common language and reference point to help leaders and teams focus on what matters most – from strategy and enablement to experimentation and scaling. Clarifying these success drivers builds alignment, accelerates execution, and lays the groundwork for responsible, enterprise-wide adoption.

Why it's Challenging @ Scale

  • Lack of Shared Framework: Without a common reference point, different teams define “winning” in inconsistent and conflicting ways.
  • Superficial Understanding: Many organizations skip over foundational GenAI principles, leading to poor strategic decisions.
  • One-Size-Fits-All Thinking: Applying generic GenAI advice without tailoring to organizational context can hinder progress.
  • Underestimating Organizational Change Needs: Driving real value often requires changes in culture, skills, and workflows – not just tools.
  • Disconnected Efforts: Without alignment on the Keys to Winning, experimentation, adoption, and enablement remain fragmented.

Complexity

High: Embedding a shared understanding of the Keys to Winning requires alignment across strategy, education, and execution at all levels.

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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 understanding of the Keys to Winning with GenAI.

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

  • Publish your Keys-to-Winning map (capabilities, owners, and gaps).
  • Build your capabilities-to-win heatmap and enablement plan.
  • Publish your readiness heatmap and top-10 acceleration guide.
  • Deliver Quick Wins: Small, high-impact GenAI projects that can demonstrate tangible value in a short time frame.
  • Launch a “Keys to Winning” Kickoff Session: Facilitate an internal workshop to introduce and explore the GenAI Keys to Winning framework.
  • Create a Keys to Winning Summary Playbook: Build a simple reference guide that summarizes each Key to Winning and why it matters.
  • Showcase GenAI Success Stories through the Lens of the Keys to Winning: Use recent use cases to highlight how each Key helped drive impact.
  • 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 early-stage GenAI efforts against strategic goals and user feedback to ensure they are ready to scale.
  • Define in-scope Processes and Guardrails: Establish clear usage policies, risk frameworks, and responsible AI guidelines to protect and empower teams.
  • Close any Data or Measurement Gaps: Identify missing metrics or weak feedback loops, and define how performance will be tracked and refined going forward.
  • 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: Sequence your GenAI rollout in clear stages, starting with high-value, low-risk opportunities.
  • Build Awareness and Finalize Enablers: Ensure that all support systems – training, documentation, tools – are in place to support scaled adoption.
  • Operationalize Your Comms Plan: Launch a structured communications cadence to keep stakeholders informed, aligned, and excited.
  • Formalize Your Best Practices: Document and standardize what’s working to ensure consistent, scalable success across teams and use cases
  • Document Lessons Learned: Capture insights from early GenAI initiatives to create reusable guidance and avoid reinventing the wheel.
  • Develop GenAI Training: Build training programs based on real-world successes to onboard new teams and reinforce best practices.
  • Form a GenAI Community: Establish an internal forum or working group where teams can share learnings, blockers, and proven methods.
  • Accelerate Your Adoption: Intensify efforts to embed GenAI across your organization by expanding use cases, increasing user engagement, and removing adoption barriers
  • Expand GenAI Applications: Promote additional use cases and provide hands-on support to help teams adopt GenAI confidently.
  • Foster a GenAI Culture: Highlight wins and celebrate team contributions to increase motivation and normalize GenAI usage.
  • Eliminate Adoption Barriers: Streamline data access, tool provisioning, and support so teams can implement GenAI without friction.
  • Celebrate Your Wins: Publicly acknowledge team accomplishments to build and sustain adoption momentum
  • Highlight Milestones: Share key achievements (e.g., successful pilots, scaled deployments) to demonstrate momentum and progress.
  • Share Impact Stories: Communicate concrete results (efficiency gains, customer impact) that reinforce the value of GenAI.
  • Recognize GenAI Champions: Spotlight individuals and teams leading GenAI initiatives to encourage continued leadership.
  • Streamline & Embed: Integrate GenAI into core workflows while eliminating friction points to make usage seamless and routine
  • Embed in Daily Workflow: Integrate GenAI tools into routine team processes so usage becomes automatic and value is sustained.
  • Simplify the User Experience: Remove extra steps, reduce friction, and make GenAI tools intuitive for all users.
  • Monitor and Improve: Collect feedback and usage data to continuously optimize GenAI performance and integration.
  • Leverage Automation: Use GenAI-powered tools and workflows to streamline repetitive tasks, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce manual effort
  • Automate Routine Tasks: Apply GenAI to simplify repetitive, low-value work such as summarization, drafting, or research.
  • Adopt Advanced AI Tools: Deploy best-in-class tools (e.g., copilots, design assistants) that embed intelligence into everyday workflows.
  • Continuously Evolve Your Toolset: Stay ahead by testing and adopting new GenAI technologies as the ecosystem evolves.
  • Evolve & Further Accelerate: Continuously refine GenAI strategies based on insights and outcomes, while expanding into more complex or high-impact use cases
  • Monitor Emerging Trends: Track new GenAI innovations and competitor moves to shape your forward strategy.
  • Expand into New Domains: Pilot GenAI solutions in untapped or advanced areas such as product innovation or strategic planning.
  • Iterate Your Vision: Use feedback and results to refine your GenAI vision and keep pace with business and technology change.

Key "Watchouts"

  • Assuming Everyone Gets It: Don’t expect teams to internalize the framework without repeated exposure and practical examples.
  • Overloading with Detail: Introducing all the Keys at once without prioritization can overwhelm rather than enable.
  • Misapplying the Framework: Applying the Keys generically without tailoring to business context reduces relevance and impact.
  • Lack of Reinforcement: A one-time introduction won’t stick – ongoing reinforcement is essential.
  • Isolating the Effort: Keeping the Keys within a small working group limits their value; broad exposure is critical.

Targeted Benefits

  • Clear Success Framework: Teams gain a shared definition of what GenAI success looks like.
  • Faster Alignment: A common language accelerates collaboration and decision-making.
  • Smarter Investments: Teams focus on high-impact areas instead of chasing trends.
  • Greater Accountability: Teams know what’s expected and can measure progress clearly.
  • Stronger Adoption: When teams understand how to win, they engage more deeply and scale more confidently.

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