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Examine how different AI futures could change the logic of your strategy
Artificial intelligence is creating strategic questions that rarely belong to one function. Changes in capability, economics, customer behaviour, competition, expertise and organisational design can affect several parts of the company at once, while different members of the leadership team may reasonably interpret those changes in different ways.
Why a workshop
The AI Strategy Stress-Test Workshop brings a small senior group together around the company’s actual strategic position and consequential decisions. The session is designed to examine how those choices could perform under materially different AI conditions, surface assumptions that deserve closer attention and develop a shared view of where commitment, preparation or flexibility may be most valuable.
AI strategy increasingly crosses technology, commercial direction, operations, investment, people, governance and long-term competitive position. Decisions in one area can create dependencies or consequences elsewhere in the organisation.
A workshop creates a concentrated environment in which the people responsible for those choices can examine the assumptions behind them together, compare how different AI developments could affect the company and identify where their interpretations of the future differ.
The purpose is strategic judgement rather than technology education. The session is prepared around the company and the decisions leadership needs to understand.
The strongest group combines people who hold different perspectives on the same strategic question, which may include technology, strategy, commercial direction, investment, operations, organisational capability or another area materially affected by the decision.
Different AI futures
The consequences of AI depend upon several uncertain developments moving together:
The workshop allows leadership to consider how important strategic choices could look under materially different combinations of those conditions.
This helps reveal where current strategy remains persuasive across different environments, where important choices depend upon a narrower set of assumptions and where preserving options may be strategically preferable to committing too early.
The detailed future conditions, workshop architecture and facilitation methodology are prepared by Futures Land and remain part of the engagement.
What leadership can examine
Depending upon the company and the strategic question, the discussion may include:
The appropriate emphasis is established before the workshop so that the session can concentrate on the questions most consequential to the participating organisation.
What the workshop is designed to create
The value of the workshop lies in returning to the present with a clearer collective view of the company’s position.
Depending upon the question being examined, leadership may identify assumptions that deserve greater scrutiny, areas of growing exposure, capabilities whose strategic value could increase, decisions that remain robust across different AI conditions and developments important enough to justify changing course.
The workshop can also reveal questions that deserve deeper company-specific analysis after the session.
Choosing the format
The AI Strategy Stress-Test Workshop is appropriate when the value also lies in bringing a small leadership group into the examination itself, allowing different perspectives, assumptions and strategic priorities to be explored collectively.
The two formats can be used independently or as connected stages of deeper AI foresight work.
The AI Strategy Stress Test provides a company-specific analytical examination of current strategy and consequential decisions across materially different AI futures.
Build a broader executive understanding of the forces and possible futures shaping AI’s business consequences.
How it works
The appropriate workshop scope depends upon the organisation, the decisions leadership needs to examine and the dimensions of AI change most capable of affecting those decisions.
An initial conversation establishes the strategic focus, participants and depth of preparation required.
Futures Land prepares the workshop around the company and the agreed strategic focus in advance, allowing the session itself to concentrate on strategic reasoning.
The AI Strategy Stress-Test Workshop is typically designed for 3–5 senior participants and runs for approximately 4–7 hours.
The detailed workshop format and engagement information are available in the AI Strategy Stress-Test Workshop deck.
When the question stays exposed to change after the engagement, Ongoing Foresight Intelligence keeps the key developments and assumptions under observation and returns to the analysis as conditions evolve.
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A first conversation can establish whether the question is suited to the workshop format, a company-specific AI Strategy Stress Test or another depth of Futures Land AI foresight.