In the inspiring surroundings of Xanadu Gallery, clients and friends of Booster of Innovation came together for not one, but two launches: the Boardroom AI Readiness Index diagnostic tool and the latest Future Briefing report dedicated to trends across the six areas of AI Culture.

What is the Boardroom AI Readiness Index?

Over the past few months, the Booster of Innovation team has been looking for an answer to one crucial question: why do 94% of AI implementations end in disappointment?

The statistics are unforgiving: only 6% of companies achieve real, expected outcomes from AI implementation. So where does the rest disappear? Why do organisations get stuck despite significant financial investment?

By combining hundreds of hours of conversations with leaders and experts from top companies with academic rigour, we have developed the Boardroom AI Readiness Index. It is a two-phase diagnostic model that measures what truly matters: an organisation’s readiness on an eight-level scale and the adaptive culture of teams across six dimensions.

Our diagnosis begins with an analysis of the organisation’s stage of development. This may fall into one of eight areas: from a business focused on day-to-day operations, through an organisation rooted in tradition, one that cultivates procedures, or one primarily driven by profit, to inclusive, autonomous and holistic organisations.

AI implementation – even in the form of access to popular chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or Claude – will take on different shades and, as a result, deliver different outcomes for each organisation. Without this knowledge, leaders often make mistakes unconsciously, which makes AI adoption far less effective.

AI Culture – are you building it consciously?

The second stage is understanding the organisation’s AI Culture. In the past, many professionals had experience implementing various technologies, such as ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), as well as helping a company move into digital by creating a website or launching social media channels.

Yet AI takes the whole organisation to an entirely different level of technology implementation.

AI is a revolution in how we work. It does not concern just one area, such as marketing or sales, but the entire company – including people who have never had to be technology experts before.

AI changes the nature of our work, even if all we have is access to a company Copilot within the Microsoft package.

AI no longer affects only the work of individuals; it also reshapes team dynamics and the new role of the manager. On top of that, there is the strategic management of the organisation and the monitoring of external change dynamics.

Never before have we gone through such a profound transformation, which is why AI triggers such a wide range of emotions.

At Booster of Innovation, we boldly take on the challenges of the future. This time, we decided to develop a solution that helps companies adapt to the changes brought about by AI and build effective navigation, so that adopting this technology delivers the highest possible return on investment.

Boardroom AI Readiness Trend Report

We combined the launch of our diagnostic tool with the premiere of a report featuring 22 trends from the Boardroom AI Readiness Index. Here are five selected signals that are redefining business today:

🟥 Trend 8. The mind as the new factory

Delegating tasks to AI agents increases the space available for intellectual work and the creation of new concepts. These are no longer occasional or sporadic activities, but a new dimension of deep intellectual diving that culminates in ready-to-use solutions.

🟥 Trend 14. Healing-Centred Leadership

Healing-Centred Leadership, or soothing leadership, emerges as a remedy for “digital trauma” alienation, and burnout caused by the extreme pace of working with AI. In this model, the leader proactively designs the working environment as a “safe harbour”.

🟥 Trend 16. The 5:1 Investment Model

For every dollar, or zloty, spent on AI licences, infrastructure and technology, an organisation needs to invest five dollars in human capital: training, reskilling, change management and rebuilding organisational culture.

🟥 Trend 19. Change Fitness

Change Fitness is a company’s ability to “digest” new technologies at speed without interrupting processes or losing performance. How can you tell that an organisation is ready for Change Fitness? It is capable of performing a weekend pivot: the team’s ability to make a surgical, radical shift in the entire working model within just a few days, should a new version of an AI model or a competitor’s move require it.

🟥 Trend 22. Digital Bifurcation

A drastic polarisation of the market into two radically different development trajectories — forming the shape of the letter “K”. The upper arm represents the leaders, or High Performers, who record a step change in margins and market share. The lower arm represents “at-risk” organisations stuck in “pilot purgatory”, struggling with cultural debt and a lack of return on investment.

Find out more

Would you like to check whether your company is ready for AI? I invite you to a strategic coffee conversation and a discussion of the diagnostic model:

Feedback from launch participants

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