Research & Insights
AI & Business Transformation Research
Research, evidence and practical resources for leaders examining how AI and automation affect strategy, operating models, productivity, governance, work and organizational capability.
The focus is the organization as a whole: what is changing, what leaders need to understand, and where evidence can help separate useful change from activity that merely looks like transformation.
Start with the organizational system
The Intelligent Organization™ provides the Alliance’s main structure for connecting research to the capabilities an organization needs to build.
Framework
The Intelligent Organization™
Explore five connected domains and twenty-five capabilities for whole-organization transformation.
Explore TIO™ →Resource library
TIO™ Resource Library
Use open guides, tools and supporting resources to understand the framework and plan practical work.
Open the TIO™ Library →Assessment
Capability Model & Maturity Assessment
Use the 25-capability model to establish a baseline and identify where focused work may be useful.
Explore the assessment →Research themes
These selections connect strategy, automation, governance and operating change with practical questions leaders are already facing.
Strategy
There Should be No Separate AI Strategy
Consider AI and automation within enterprise strategy, investment choices and operating priorities.
Read on Substack →AI agents
AI Agents: From Answers to Action
Examine permissions, human oversight and accountability when AI systems begin to act.
Read on Substack →Value and sponsorship
Public Sector AI Sponsors: From AI Opportunity to Value
Explore the executive sponsor’s role in choosing useful work and proving public value.
Read on Substack →Explore the five TIO domains
Use the domain pages to go deeper into the organizational capabilities behind strategy, intelligence, technology, delivery and people.
Leadership
Strategy, fluency, governance, risk and transformation.
Explore Leadership →Data
The foundations required for trusted information, intelligence and decisions.
Explore Data →Technology
Architecture, platforms, integration, automation and resilience.
Explore Technology →Factory
How organizations discover, design, deliver, measure and scale useful change.
Explore Factory →People
Change, adoption, skills, roles and culture.
Explore People →Use the research to decide where to focus
Explore the material independently, use the TIO resources directly, or bring a transformation question into a conversation with the Alliance.