Thinking & Perspectives
AI Strategy Insights
Practical perspectives on AI strategy, agentic systems architecture, and governance — from the advisory practice at Imagine Works.
AI Centre of Excellence: Should You Build One — and What Should It Do?
As enterprise AI programmes mature, a recurring question emerges: who owns AI across the organisation? The AI Centre of Excellence is the most common answer — and one of the most misunderstood and misimplemented structures in enterprise AI. Here is how to get it right.
Workforce Planning for AI: Roles, Reskilling, and the Human–AI Team
The question enterprise leaders most commonly ask about AI and workforce is: which jobs will be automated? This is the wrong question. The right question is: how does AI change the work — and what does that mean for the people doing it? Here is how to plan your workforce transition correctly.
AI Portfolio Management: How to Prioritise Which Use Cases to Fund
Most enterprise AI investment is made project by project. Each decision is rational in isolation and collectively they produce a fragmented, duplicated, ungoverned portfolio that does not compound into organisational capability. Here is how to manage AI investment as a portfolio instead.
How to Assess Your Organisation's AI Maturity
Most organisations do not know where they actually are on the AI maturity curve. Without an honest assessment, investment decisions are made in the wrong order and operating models are designed for an organisation that does not yet exist. Here is how to assess AI maturity accurately.
How to Build a Business Case for Enterprise AI Investment
Most AI business cases fail before the technology is ever evaluated. They're built around the wrong metrics, framed for the wrong audience, and measured against the wrong baseline. Here's how to construct one that actually gets funded — and delivers.
What Is an AI Operating Model — and Why Most Organisations Don't Have One
Most organisations have AI pilots. Few have an operating model to scale them. Here's what an AI Operating Model actually is, what it contains, and why the absence of one is the single biggest barrier to enterprise AI maturity.