Unpacking The AI Strategy Blueprint: Tangible AI Transformation for your Business
This podcast, hosted by Lara Wilson, provides business leaders with actionable frameworks for AI transformation based on John Byron Hanby IV's book. It covers key concepts like the 10-20-70 Rule and Crawl-Walk-Run deployment, while addressing governance, ROI, security, and change management. The show aims to help organizations move beyond experimentation and achieve real AI value.
Episodes
Episode #51 - Your Seven Commitments — Leading the Greatest Technology Transformation
Episode 51: The Grand Finale — Seven Commitments to Lead the Greatest Technology Transformation of Our LifetimeAfter 51 episodes, host Lara Wilson brings The AI Strategy Blueprint home with the chapter that separates intent from action. Drawing on John Hanby's landmark book, this finale delivers the exact seven commitments every executive must make right now — from securing C-suite ownership to ev
Episode #50 - Principles That Endure and The Widening Gap
Episode 50: The Five Principles That Outlast Every Hype Cycle — And Why the Clock Is Running OutWe are one episode away from the finish line, and The AI Strategy Blueprint saves some of its most urgent, actionable insight for the penultimate chapter. In Episode 50, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 17 of John Hanby's book — a chapter built entirely around permanence. In an industry where a new fron
Episode #49 - The Transformation We've Mapped — Your Complete AI Strategy Recap
Episode 49: The Blueprint Revealed — How the Top 5% Turn AI Into a Competitive WeaponRight now, only 5% of organizations are achieving truly transformational value from AI — while 60% are generating minimal returns, despite investing in the exact same foundational technologies. So what separates the leaders from the laggards? In this landmark finale of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson s
Episode #48 - The Continuous Improvement Loop — Feedback to Refinement
Episode 48: Why Your AI Gets Dumber Over Time — And Exactly How to Stop ItWhat if the biggest threat to your AI investment isn't a bad vendor, a failed deployment, or a data breach — but simply walking away after launch? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks one of the most overlooked realities in enterprise AI: the systems you build will degrade, drift, and disapp
Episode #47 - Testing LLMs, Agents, and RAG Systems
Episode 47: Why Your AI Testing Strategy Is Probably Broken — And What to Do About ItWhat does it actually take to test an AI system that can confidently lie to you up to 30% of the time? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 16 of John Hanby's book — and this one is required listening for every executive who has signed off on an AI deployment witho
Episode #46 - Why AI Testing Is Fundamentally Different from Software Testing
Episode 46: Stop Testing Your AI Like It's a Calculator — It's NotWhat if everything your QA team knows about software testing is actually making your AI deployments less reliable? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 16 of John Hanby's book and delivers a bracing wake-up call for every executive who assumed their existing quality assurance processes were
Episode #45 - Why AI Hallucinations Are a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem
Episode 45: Your AI Isn't Lying — Your Data IsWhat if the AI hallucination crisis tearing through enterprise tech had nothing to do with the models themselves? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 15 of John Hanby's book and delivers a wake-up call for every C-suite leader betting their business on AI: a 20% hallucination rate isn't a model glitch
Episode #44 - Air-Gapped AI, Data Sovereignty, and Compliance Frameworks
Episode 44: When the Best Firewall Is No Internet Connection at AllWhat happens when your organization's data is simply too sensitive for even the most hardened cloud environment on the planet? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 15 of John Hanby's book — tackling one of the top three barriers blocking enterprise AI adoption today: Data Sovereignt
Episode #43 - The Unique Security Landscape of AI Systems
Episode 43: Your AI Is Only as Safe as Your Data StrategyWhat if the single greatest threat to your enterprise AI deployment isn't a hacker in a hoodie — it's an employee copy-pasting a confidential document into a free chatbot? On The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 15 of John Hanby's definitive guide, unpacking why the security landscape for AI systems is fundamen
Episode #42 - AI Solutions, Portfolio Strategy, and Build vs. Buy
Episode 42: Stop Hammering Nails with a Chatbot — How to Match the Right AI to the Right ProblemIs your organization falling into the most expensive trap in corporate AI today — throwing large language models at every single business problem, whether they fit or not? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 14 of John Hanby's groundbreaking book and delivers a
Episode #41 - Understanding Large Language Models — What Leaders Must Know
Episode 41: Parameters, Context Windows, and the RAG Revolution — The Technical Truth Every Executive Needs to HearAre you still treating every business problem like a nail just because you discovered the LLM hammer? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 14 of John Hanby's groundbreaking book to give leaders the technical foundation they actually ne
Episode #40 - The AI Taxonomy — Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Agents
Episode 40: Stop Swinging the LLM Hammer — A CEO's Guide to Matching the Right AI to the Right ProblemWhat if the reason your enterprise AI initiative is stalling has nothing to do with your data, your team, or your budget — and everything to do with using the wrong kind of AI entirely? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 14 of John Hanby's book t
Episode #39 - Designing Your Hybrid AI Architecture
Episode 39: Stop Guessing — Here's Exactly Where Your AI Should LiveIs your organization making a ten-million-dollar AI infrastructure decision based on gut instinct? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 13 of John Hanby's book and unpacks the Decision Criteria Matrix — a six-factor framework designed to help C-suite leaders stop guessing and start
Episode #38 - Cloud, On-Premises, and Edge — Where Should Your AI Live
Episode 38: The Infrastructure Decision That Will Make or Break Your AI StrategyDo you actually know where your AI lives? Not metaphorically — physically. Which processor is taking your sensitive corporate data, crunching it, and returning an answer? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 13 of John Hanby's book and reveals why this single infrastructure dec
Episode #37 - Centralized vs. Distributed — The Fundamental AI Architecture Choice
Episode 37: The Architecture Decision That Will Make or Break Your AI StrategyWho actually controls the AI in your organization right now? Who benefits from it — and how quickly does that value flow to the people who need it most? On The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 13 of John Hanby's book to tackle the fundamental architectural question that most executive teams
Episode #36 - Structuring Partner Relationships for Long-Term AI Success
Episode 36: Your AI Partner's Ceiling Is Your Organization's CeilingHow do you know if your AI partner is the real deal — or just another firm that slapped an ""AI"" sticker on their old marketing brochures? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 12 of John Hanby's definitive executive playbook and reveals the rigorous due diligence framework every C-suite l
Episode #35 - Spotting AI-Washing vs. Real Partner Capability
Episode 35: Don't Get Greenwashed by AI — How to Spot the Real Deal Before You SignEvery vendor in the enterprise space has suddenly discovered AI. Their slide decks say ""AI-powered,"" their websites say ""AI-first,"" and their salespeople say all the right things. But are they actually building AI practices — or just doing a find-and-replace on last year's pitch? On The AI Strategy Blueprint, ho
Episode #34 - Your Channel Partner as AI Gateway
Episode 34: The Partner Who Makes or Breaks Your AI FutureMost executives assume that adopting AI means calling up the companies that build it — buying a few licenses, flipping a switch, and watching the transformation unfold. But as host Lara Wilson unpacks in this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, that couldn't be further from how enterprise technology actually works. The real gateway to AI
Episode #33 - AI in Manufacturing, Government, and Defense
Episode 33: No Wi-Fi, No Cloud, No Problem — AI Where It's Needed MostWhat happens when you need AI on a factory floor with no internet, inside a locked government records room where data cannot leave the building, or in a classified SCIF where even your smartphone is a security risk? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson breaks down Chapter 11 of the book by author John H
Episode #32 - AI in Healthcare, Legal Services, and Financial Services
Episode 32: Data Sovereignty is the Real AI Strategy — Inside Healthcare, Legal, and Financial ServicesWhat if the biggest barrier to AI in your organization isn't the technology itself — it's where the data goes? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 11 of John Hanby's framework, revealing why the most regulated industries in the world aren't just AI lagga
Episode #31 - Cross-Industry AI Applications and the Principle of Vertical Translation
Episode 31: Your Industry Doesn't Need a Custom AI — It Needs Your BrainWhat if the biggest mistake your organization is making right now is waiting? Waiting for the perfect, bespoke AI solution built just for your industry. Waiting for ""Hospital-AI-in-a-Box"" or ""Aerospace-Procurement-AI"" to show up on the market. In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson breaks down Chapt
Episode #30 - The Land-and-Expand Motion — From Pilot to Enterprise
Episode 30: Why the Smallest AI Deployments Win the Biggest TransformationsDid you know the average enterprise has identified hundreds of Generative AI use cases — yet deployed fewer than six to production? That staggering gap between demo and reality is where AI dreams go to die. On this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks exactly why massively funded, top-down AI rollo
Episode #29 - The Crawl-Walk-Run Framework for AI Deployment
Episode 29: Why Your AI Pilots Are Stuck — And the Framework That Finally Gets Them to ProductionThe average enterprise has identified hundreds of promising AI use cases. Know how many have actually made it to production? Fewer than six. In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks the brutal gap between AI ambition and AI reality — and why the most sophisticated organiza
Episode #28 - Why Big AI Initiatives Fail and Small Ones Succeed
Episode 28: The Counterintuitive Secret to AI Success — Think SmallerYour organization has identified hundreds of AI use cases. Brilliant people. Massive budgets. Sticky-note-covered whiteboards. So why have you deployed fewer than six to production? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 10 of John Hanby's book and confronts the uncomfortable truth that amb
Episode #27 - The Prioritization Framework — Quick Wins vs. Strategic Bets
Episode 27: Stop Drowning in AI Ideas — Here's How to Find the Ones That Actually MatterDoes your organization have too many AI ideas and too few results? You're not alone. According to IDC research cited in The AI Strategy Blueprint, the typical enterprise identifies hundreds of potential generative AI use cases — yet deploys fewer than six to production. Host Lara Wilson unpacks what author John
Episode #26 - The Discovery Methodology — Mapping Daily Work to AI Use Cases
Episode 26: Stop Drowning in Ideas — Here's How to Find the AI Use Cases That Actually MatterYour organization probably already has hundreds of AI ideas. Whiteboards full of them. Endless brainstorm sessions. So why are fewer than six of those ideas ever making it to production? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson digs into what author John Hanby calls the Identification
Episode #25 - The Identification Paradox — Why Organizations Drown in AI Opportunities
Episode 25: From Sticky Notes to Production — Breaking the AI Identification ParadoxYour organization has identified hundreds of AI use cases. So why are fewer than six actually running in production? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 9 of John Hanby's groundbreaking book to expose the central challenge holding enterprises back: the Identification Parad
Episode #24 - From Analysis to Approval — The Bulletproof Business Case
Episode 24: Stop Pitching AI — Start Proving It PaysWhat separates a stalled pilot from a fully funded enterprise AI rollout? It's not the technology. It's the business case. In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 8 of John Hanby's book and reveals the financial frameworks that turn AI enthusiasm into boardroom approval — starting with a deceptively
Episode #23 - Industry Benchmarks — Real-World AI Performance Data
Episode 23: The Math That Unlocks Executive Buy-InSix hundred billion dollars has poured into AI globally — and almost none of it has a measurable return on investment yet. Why? Not because the technology fails, but because most organizations cannot translate vague productivity promises into the hard, defensible numbers that finance teams actually accept. In this episode of The AI Strategy Bluepri
Episode #22 - The Numbers That Unlock Budgets — Baselines and the ROI Framework
Episode 22: The $600 Billion Wake-Up Call — How to Build an AI Business Case That Actually Gets ApprovedSix hundred billion dollars. That's how much has been poured into AI technologies across the market, according to research from Sequoia Capital and Goldman Sachs — with essentially no measurable return on investment yet realized. Finance teams are staring at balance sheets asking: where is it? I
Episode #21 - Building the CFO-Friendly AI Business Case
Episode 21: Building the CFO-Friendly AI Business CaseGlobal AI investment is projected to hit $307 billion by 2025. And yet, a staggering MIT study found that 95% of AI investments have produced zero measurable returns. Sound familiar? That's not a technology problem — it's a financial architecture problem.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson breaks down Chapter 7 of Joh
Episode #20 - The Perpetual License Revolution — Rethinking AI Economics
Episode 20: The Perpetual License Revolution — Rethinking AI EconomicsThirty dollars a month. Per user. It sounds like nothing — a rounding error in an enterprise IT budget. But according to The AI Strategy Blueprint, that monthly subscription fee is quietly destroying the ROI of AI initiatives before they ever get off the ground.In this episode, host Lara Wilson dives deep into Chapter 7 of John
Episode #19 - Why 95% of AI Investments Fail — And How to Be the 5%
Episode 19: Why 95% of AI Investments Fail — And How to Be the 5%Global AI investment is racing toward $632 billion by 2028. Boards are demanding strategies. Budgets are being approved. And yet — an MIT study highlighted in Chapter 7 of The AI Strategy Blueprint reveals that 95% of those investments have produced zero measurable returns. Not a typo. Ninety-five percent.In this episode, host Lara W
Episode #18 - Champions, Sponsors, and the Adoption Flywheel
Episode 18: Champions, Sponsors, and the Adoption FlywheelYou've bought the licenses. You've rolled out the platform. And yet — crickets. Nobody's using it. If this sounds familiar, you've hit the real wall of AI transformation: not the technology, but the people.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks one of the most powerful frameworks from author John Hanby's book
Episode #17 - The Transformation Playbook — From Secure Chat to Enterprise AI
Episode 17: The Transformation Playbook — From Secure Chat to Enterprise AIHere's a number that should stop you cold: 70. That's the percentage of AI's business value that comes not from algorithms or data infrastructure — but from how well you transform your people and your processes. BCG's 10-20-70 rule, cited by author John Hanby in The AI Strategy Blueprint, makes one thing brutally clear: AI
Episode #16 - Winning Hearts and Minds — The Psychology of AI Transformation
Episode 16: Winning Hearts and Minds — The Psychology of AI TransformationHere's a stat that should completely reframe your AI budget: 70% of AI success depends on people and processes — not technology. Not the models. Not the infrastructure. The humans.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks the chapter John Hanby calls the hardest challenge in enterprise AI. Instal
Episode #15 - Data Governance, Access Controls, and the Human-in-the-Loop Imperative
Episode 15: Data Governance, Access Controls, and the Human-in-the-Loop ImperativeYour AI is hallucinating. But here's the uncomfortable truth: it's not the AI's fault. In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson flips the narrative on enterprise AI's most feared problem — and proves that hallucinations aren't a model failure. They're a data governance failure.Drawing from autho
Episode #14 - Building the Governance Machine — Policies, Structures, and Risk Tiers
Episode 14: Building the Governance Machine — Policies, Structures, and Risk TiersSay the word ""governance"" in a boardroom and watch the eyes glaze over. But what if governance isn't the enemy of speed — it's the reason you can go fast in the first place? Think about it: Formula 1 cars have the most advanced brakes in the world not to slow them down, but to let them push the limits knowing they
Episode #13 - Governance as a Speed Enabler, Not a Roadblock
Episode 13: Governance as a Speed Enabler, Not a RoadblockWhat if the thing you thought was slowing your AI transformation down is actually the only thing that can speed it up? Most executives hear ""AI governance"" and picture endless committee meetings, red tape, and the department of ""no."" John Hanby wants to completely flip that script.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara
Episode #12 - Building Your Tiered Vendor Strategy
Episode 12: Building Your Tiered Vendor Strategy — Stop Guessing, Start BenchmarkingYour inbox is a warzone. Every AI company on earth is promising to revolutionize your business overnight, and every booth at every conference has "".ai"" slapped on its banner. For C-suite leaders, the result is analysis paralysis — right at the moment when vendor selection has never mattered more.In this episode o
Episode #11 - The Due Diligence Playbook — Evaluating AI ISVs Like a Pro
Episode 11: The Due Diligence Playbook — Evaluating AI ISVs Like a ProYour IT team is already stretched to the limit. Your compliance requirements are non-negotiable. And somewhere in a boardroom, a vendor is about to show you a very slick PowerPoint. So how do you separate the real players from the pretenders?In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson goes deep into Chapter 4
Episode #10 - Why Vendor Selection Is Your Most Consequential AI Decision
Episode 10: Why Vendor Selection Is Your Most Consequential AI DecisionChoosing the wrong AI vendor doesn't just cost money — it costs months of lost productivity, burned employee trust, and a competitive head start handed straight to your rivals. That's the warning at the heart of Chapter 4 of The AI Strategy Blueprint.In this episode, host Lara Wilson unpacks why author John Hanby calls ISV sele
Episode #9 - Building an AI-Fluent Organization — Training Programs That Work
Episode 9: Building an AI-Fluent Organization — Training Programs That WorkYou can buy the best AI tools on the market. You can have the most visionary strategy deck in the boardroom. But if your workforce can't speak the language of AI? None of it matters. The technology just sits there, gathering digital dust, while your competitors pull ahead.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host L
Episode #8 - The High School Intern Mental Model — How to Actually Talk to AI
Episode 8: The High School Intern Mental Model — How to Actually Talk to AIWhat if the reason your team gets mediocre AI output has nothing to do with the technology — and everything to do with how you're talking to it? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson reveals the single most transformative communication framework for getting genius-level results from AI systems that
Episode #7 - The AI Literacy Crisis — Why Your Workforce Can't Use the Tools You Bought
Episode 7: The AI Literacy Crisis — Why Your Workforce Can't Use the Tools You BoughtYou bought the licenses. You deployed the tools. So why is nothing changing? The brutal truth: 95% of AI investments have failed — not because the technology doesn't work, but because your people don't know how to use it. That's not a tech problem. That's a literacy crisis.In this episode of The AI Strategy Bluepr
Episode #6 - Industry Under Siege — How AI Is Reshaping Every Sector
Episode 6: Industry Under Siege — How AI Is Reshaping Every SectorEvery industry thinks it's different. Finance is too regulated. Manufacturing is too physical. Healthcare is too sensitive. Legal is too nuanced. AI doesn't care about your excuses — and your competitors are proving it.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson breaks down Chapter 2 of John Hanby's book with a se
Episode #5 - The Widening Gap and the Compounding Advantage
Episode 5: The Widening Gap and the Compounding AdvantageWhat is the actual, quantifiable cost of standing still? It's the question John Hanby puts on the table right at the start of Chapter 2 — and the answer is far more brutal than most executives expect.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson breaks down explosive BCG research showing that companies are already sorting in
Episode #4 - Disruption Scenarios — Tomorrow's Market Leaders Are Being Built Today
Episode 4: Disruption Scenarios — Tomorrow's Market Leaders Are Being Built TodayWhat happens when generative AI makes software essentially free? When AI call centers answer every customer in any language, 24/7, for fractions of a penny? When Hollywood-quality video gets generated in weeks instead of years? In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks Chapter 2 of John Ha
Episode #3 - The Four-Part Framework — Your Complete AI Roadmap
Episode 3: The Four-Part Framework — Your Complete AI RoadmapNinety-seven percent of executives believe AI will fundamentally transform their companies. Only four percent are generating substantial value. What separates the winners from everyone else? It's not the size of their AI budget or the sophistication of their algorithms — it's strategic clarity.In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint
Episode #2 - The Execution Gap — Why 97% Believe But Only 4% Deliver
Episode 2: The Execution Gap — Why 97% Believe But Only 4% Deliver$19.9 trillion. That's the projected cumulative global economic impact of AI through 2030. So why are only 4% of companies actually capturing meaningful value — while 97% of executives say they believe AI will transform their business?In this episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson unpacks the central thesis of John H
Episode #1 - The Greatest Technology Transformation in Human History
Episode 1: The Revolution Is Here — Are You Ready?Every few generations, a technology comes along that rewrites the rules of business. The telegraph. The telephone. The internet. Now, AI.In this premiere episode of The AI Strategy Blueprint, host Lara Wilson cuts through the hype to answer the question every leader should be asking: how much more can we accomplish per unit of human time?She traces
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