Picking and running AI projects in a small business
Choosing your first AI project
Choosing your first AI project
- How to Pick the First AI Project for a Small Business
- Mapping AI Opportunities on a Process Map
- Scoring AI Projects: A Weighted Matrix for Small Businesses
- When to Automate a Step, Assist It, or Leave It Alone
- How to Tell a Process Problem from a Model Problem
- Turning a Weighted Score into a Funded Roadmap
- When a Weighted Score Hides a Bad Project
Running an AI pilot
Running an AI pilot that ends in a decision
- How to Run an AI Pilot That Ends in a Decision
- How to Set a Stop Rule for an AI Pilot Before It Starts
- How to Test Whether a Revised Pilot Earns Another Run
- How to Write a One-Page Charter for an AI Pilot
- A Pilot Charter That Outlives Its Sponsor
- How to Split a Pilot's Hours Between Build, Eval and Review
- How to Turn a Charter into a Weekly Pilot Scorecard
- How to Write a Pilot Decision Rule That Outlives Its Sponsor
- All of Running an AI pilot
Business case and ROI
Building the business case and ROI
- Measuring ROI on AI Automation
- Choosing a Baseline to Compare an AI Pilot Against
- Forecasting the Support Load of a Default-On AI Feature
- How to Instrument AI Workflows So ROI Calculations Are Possible
- How to Measure Whether AI Training Changed Anyone's Work
- How to Split AI Savings Between Time Saved and Errors Avoided
- How to Test Whether an Agent Performs a Task as Fast as a Human
- Reading a Vendor's Time-and-Motion Study: What to Check
- All of Business case and ROI
Staffing an AI rollout
Staffing and scaling an AI rollout
- How to Train Staff to Work with AI Tools
- How to Pick Internal AI Champions and Give Them Real Time
- How to Staff an AI Pilot and Scale It Without Burning the Team
- How to Write a Training Session That Leaves a Measurable Artifact
- How to Hand an AI Pilot from a Champion to Daily Operations
- How to Measure Team Load During an AI Rollout
- How to Set a Time Budget for AI Work Without Starving Delivery
- How to Spot a Champion Who Is Hoarding the AI Work
- All of Staffing an AI rollout
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