AI Readiness

AI pressure is no longer confined to large enterprises. For many small and mid-sized consultancies, the question isn’t whether AI matters, it’s how to adopt it without creating risk, confusion, or wasted investment. This is the story of a 40-person professional services consultancy that almost scaled AI too quickly and how structured readiness evaluation changed…

There’s a quiet assumption running through many boardrooms and leadership meetings right now: If you’re not adopting AI, you’re falling behind. It sounds logical. Sensible, even. But it’s also incomplete. Because AI readiness and AI adoption are not the same thing and confusing the two is where most organisations begin to drift. Understanding the difference…