AI Strategy – More Value Creation Through the Targeted Use of AI
The use of artificial intelligence increasingly determines competitiveness and efficiency. Yet only companies with a clear AI strategy can exploit potential in a targeted way and avoid bad investments. We help you assess AI potential, prioritise relevant use cases and develop an individual roadmap. In doing so, we combine strategy, technology and change management for successful implementation.
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Our Solution for You
A successful AI strategy is not created by technology alone. It connects corporate goals with concrete use cases, creates the necessary framework conditions and takes the human factor into account. The result is solutions that create measurable added value, meet with acceptance within the company and are actively supported by employees.
Our AI strategy consulting supports you in turning AI into a concrete growth and efficiency strategy.
1. Develop the AI strategy: Create a shared vision for your company
Many companies start with individual AI ideas from different departments. The problem: Without a shared vision, different expectations, isolated solutions and missing priorities emerge.
1. Develop the AI strategy: Create a shared vision for your company
We create a shared understanding at management level. In interviews and workshops, we analyse your strategic goals, challenges and expectations of AI. We assess which business areas hold the greatest AI potential, which use cases are realistically feasible, which prerequisites are necessary and how success can be measured. On this basis, we develop a clear AI vision and a convincing AI story that conveys the benefits for your company in an understandable way. The result is an aligned AI strategy with a clear direction, measurable goals and a shared understanding at leadership level.
2. Develop the AI roadmap: From vision to implementation
A strategy only takes effect when ideas become concrete measures.
2. Develop the AI roadmap: From vision to implementation
We translate your AI goals into a realistic implementation roadmap, identifying, evaluating and prioritising relevant AI initiatives based on their business value, technical feasibility, the required effort and investment, and the speed to the first measurable value. From this, we derive concrete action steps and define prioritised AI use cases, a clear timeline with milestones, responsibilities, required resources and suitable success metrics. The result is a structured roadmap that gives you confidence in your decisions, avoids unnecessary investments and enables targeted implementation — an AI roadmap with which you realise measurable value step by step.
3. Create the prerequisites: Data, governance and security
AI is only as powerful as the foundation it is built on. That is why we look beyond the applications to the necessary framework conditions.
3. Create the prerequisites: Data, governance and security
We analyse your data basis and, together with you, develop the structures needed for a secure and responsible use of AI. We assess data readiness, develop a suitable data strategy, define clear roles and responsibilities and take into account relevant data protection and compliance requirements as well as binding guidelines for the safe handling of AI. Alongside classic AI applications, we also include generative AI and modern cloud-based solutions. The result is a resilient framework that enables sustainable AI use, reduces risks and lays the foundation for secure scaling.
4. Anchor the AI strategy: Win people over for the change
The best AI strategy remains ineffective if it is not understood and implemented within the company.
4. Anchor the AI strategy: Win people over for the change
Many organisations underestimate a decisive factor: Employees need to understand why change is necessary and what benefits AI brings. This is exactly where we come in with our change expertise. We win over leaders as active drivers, develop a convincing AI story, involve employees early on and create acceptance for new ways of working. With innovative communication and experience formats, we ensure that AI is not just introduced but actually used. The result is an AI strategy that is lived within the company and has a lasting effect.
“Together with you, we develop and implement an AI strategy that involves employees and is tailored to your potential.”
Cornelius Klingel, Manager at CPC
Your Benefits
Our AI strategy consulting offers you numerous benefits:
Clarity about goals
We make sure your AI strategy contains precisely defined goals that contribute directly to your business success.
Focus on the greatest value
We identify and prioritise the AI projects with the highest ROI.
A faster market advantage
Our proven approach ensures the accelerated implementation of AI projects to secure competitive advantages early on.
Understanding and secure implementation
Clear rules and concrete guidelines on data, data protection and ethics make the AI strategy tangible and create trust and legal certainty.
Acceptance and motivation of your employees
Tailor-made experience formats and further change measures spark enthusiasm and create an emotional connection to your new AI strategy.
Measurable, lasting impact
With clearly defined KPIs and representative feedback, we track progress and ensure that the strategy reaches your employees.
“Our strategy consulting creates clarity, connects different perspectives and delivers measurable competitive advantages for your company.”
Oliver Kleinknecht, Partner at CPC
About Us
consultants deployed worldwide for you.
projects delivered successfully for our clients.
focus on change management.
of the DAX40 companies trust us.
1. We understand business
To advise organizations on change projects, you need an entrepreneurial eye and a feel for business. For us, change management is never an end in itself, but always economically justified.
2. We work globally
If we aren't already on site, we go wherever our clients need us. In doing so, we set up concepts internationally from the outset.
3. We think change digitally
We have a strong affinity for digital topics. Since our founding we have supported many change projects in the IT environment. We are curious about what moves companies forward technically and has a positive effect on their business.
4. We strengthen everyone on the team
A company in which employees enjoy their work – that's what we work hard on every day. This is exactly the attitude with which we do consulting. Because for us, people are at the center of every transformation.
We're grateful for these awards
- CPC is a five-time No. 1 Hidden Champion for change management
- Year after year, brandeins/thema names us Germany's best management consultancy for change management
- We have been a Focus Top Consultant for many years
- Winner of the HR Excellence Award and the European Training Prize together with Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa Technik
- We are No. 1 Great Place to Work in the 51–100 employees category and a Kununu Top Company.
Let's discuss
your project with us!
The first step is easy — and don't worry: we won't send you dull newsletters or annoying promotional emails. Instead, we focus on what matters: your change goals and how we can move your business forward.
Step 1
Call back or email.
Within 24 hours we get in touch with you, capture your requirements and arrange an appointment with one of our experts.
Step 2
Free initial consultation.
In a video call you explain your project and discuss possible solution scenarios together with our expert.
Step 3
You decide how to proceed.
Proposal, pitch or project kickoff? You set the next steps.
Do you have questions about AI strategy?
An AI strategy is a structured plan with which companies align the use of artificial intelligence with their business goals. It covers goals, use cases, data strategy, AI systems, roles, skill building and governance. This turns individual AI applications into a responsible transformation.
Successful integration works when AI solutions are seamlessly embedded into processes, data flows and IT systems. We work in four steps: goal definition with top management, an AI roadmap with prioritised projects, framework conditions for data, data protection and ethics, and anchoring within the company. The result is an AI strategy that has a measurable effect and takes your employees along.
Successful AI strategies involve top management, business departments, IT and internal and external experts. We bring these perspectives together in interviews and workshops, creating a shared understanding — the basis for acceptance and implementation.
AI changes processes, roles and business models. Without change management, an AI strategy often remains abstract. We combine strategy development with experience-oriented formats, clear messages and a cascading approach so that the strategy arrives in everyday work and takes effect.
We work for DAX companies and mid-sized businesses in Germany and Europe, including the automotive industry, the energy sector, chemicals & pharma, banking & insurance and mechanical engineering. Our focus: large transformations in which employees need to come along.
That is exactly the right time. An AI strategy does not start with the AI system but with an honest assessment of your data foundation. Together, we identify which data is available, what quality it has and how you can systematically build a viable data basis. This way you avoid starting later AI projects on an uncertain foundation.