Question

A retail company's newly formed AI steering committee has approved four gen AI initiatives but has limited engineering capacity to launch them one at a time over the next year. The CFO wants to build organizational momentum and secure continued funding, while the CEO wants to ensure the program eventually delivers transformational value. Which sequencing approach best balances these leadership priorities when deciding what to build first?

Accepted Answer

Start with a low-effort, high-visibility use case that delivers a measurable early win, then reinvest the credibility and learnings into the more complex, higher-value initiatives

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Launch the most technically ambitious and highest-value initiative first, since it will justify the entire program's budget in a single deliverable

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Sequence the initiatives strictly by which teams volunteered first, to reward enthusiasm and maximize internal buy-in

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Delay all launches until every initiative has a fully validated ROI model, so the committee can rank them purely by projected financial return