Finding High-Value AI Use Cases
The fastest way to waste an enterprise's AI budget is to build the wrong thing impressively. Before any model is chosen, the decisive work is choosing which problems to point AI at — and doing it as a portfolio, weighing real business value against honest feasibility, rather than chasing whatever demos well. Use-case selection is where enterprise AI adoption is won or lost.
The fastest way to waste an AI budget is to build the wrong thing impressively. Use-case selection as a portfolio: value x feasibility scoring, the signatures of problems suited to AI (and the anti-signatures), resisting AI theater, and sequencing early wins against foundational bets so the program compounds.