PRACTICE · I · STRATEGY
Roadmaps, not framework decks.
The first decision in an agentic program isn’t which model. It’s which pilot pays back this quarter, which one funds the second, and which third pilot has to wait for the data foundation to land. Strategy is sequencing, costed and dated.
Most agentic strategy decks fail at the same seam: they argue why AI matters and stop there. The hard work starts where they end: the use-case portfolio scored for impact and difficulty, the partner co-funding applied for in week two so the program self-funds by month nine, the production milestone defined narrowly enough that nobody can move the goalposts in QBR.
Only 39% of enterprises report any material contribution to EBIT from AI (McKinsey, 2025). The difference isn’t the model — it’s whether each deployment had a P&L line, an owner, and a kill criterion from day one. So we write the roadmap with finance in the room. The deliverable is not a slide. It’s a twelve-month sequencing plan that survives a CFO review.
On strategy
The bet is timing, not technology. Sequencing is the strategy.
START · THE STRATEGY BRIEF
Where on the curve are you, really?
Take the Agentic Readiness Assessment to baseline strategy alongside the other five dimensions. Ten minutes; you walk away with a sequencing plan, not a framework deck.