Build & Prove – Opening Briefing

Day 1 opens with a vendor-neutral briefing that sets the cadence for two parallel tracks – Impact and Innovation. We introduce three cues to assess every session – the business decision, the mechanism, and the metric that moved – plus a pilot-to-production checklist. With examples spanning manager-level agents, decision services and synthetic workforce models, attendees are shown how to pair build quality with proof of value. You will leave ready to choose one decision to move this quarter, define a measurable outcome, and name a Finance or IT co-owner.

• Why Impact and Innovation run in tandem today – Build & Prove as the theme.
• The three cues for every session – problem and decision, mechanism, and the metric that moved.
• Pilot → production checklist – data readiness, evaluation loop, privacy and policy-as-code.
• SWP and skills patterns shaping resourcing, location, and investment choices.
• Adoption telemetry – who uses it, how often, and what behaviour changes.
• How to use the day – pick one decision, one metric, and a Finance or IT co-owner, plus Q&A prompts to reveal what to scale, pivot or stop.

• Apply the three cues to frame any session and test for decision value.
• Recognise a credible pilot-to-production plan and spot common red flags.
• Specify the adoption telemetry you expect and use it with sponsors to steer scale-up.
• Select one near-term business decision to move, define a measurable metric, and assign a Finance or IT co-owner.
• Use targeted Q&A prompts to uncover what to scale, what to pivot, and what to stop.
• Connect skills and SWP patterns to resourcing, location and investment decisions.

David Green

Managing Partner & Executive Director · Insight222

Budgets are tight, AI adoption is accelerating, and leaders must evidence impact, not experiments. Investments in manager agents, skills intelligence and decision services have to translate into capacity gains, cost control, risk reduction or growth. This briefing resets expectations so the day yields decisions, telemetry and practices that withstand CFO and CIO scrutiny.