What One Company Is Doing Differently About AI

One of our clients is going all-in on AI, but not how most companies are doing it.

I’ve been teaching a monthly course about leading agility at a large, well-known tech company. Mid-2025, I noticed that participants were asking more and more questions about AI and agility. And recently, the examples they picked for planning exercises were all about AI enablement. This is now the focus: the company is going all-in on AI.

As with most companies, the push comes from the top. But it’s playing out differently than the common strategies of “Everyone, use AI as much as possible” and “Let’s all start using AI and see where it helps.” In those forms of AI adoption, here is what typically follows:

Output accelerates but value doesn’t
People’s skills, engagement, and roles shift in ways nobody’s tracking
Problems multiply within teams and across teams

Instead, this company is being thoughtful and leaders are pacing themselves. They’re designing experiments around use cases and looking at their impact. Already used to collaborating extensively across functions, their adoption efforts are not siloed. Rather than graft AI onto agile practices, they’re thinking about how to have AI-native agility.

Even so, assembling the complete picture of how AI affects value delivery systems is something most leadership teams (including strong ones) haven’t had the chance to do.

That’s why I’ve designed a short course for directors and VPs called “Reshaping Product Development for AI’s Impacts.” The goal is to build the alignment, shared language, and clarity needed for effective leadership of AI-augmented value delivery. It connects the dots that usually remain disconnected — systems thinking, ways-of-working design, the people impact, planning implications, and leadership behaviours — into a single model they can act on.

This course is only available privately. If AI adoption is challenging your company, ask us for the data sheet. And if you know a colleague who’d find this relevant, feel free to forward it to them.