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AI over old foundations doesn't accelerate growth. It accelerates drag.


"Workflow redesign has the strongest correlation with bottom-line AI impact of all factors tested - yet fewer than 1 in 5 organisations have done it." 

McKinsey, The State of AI, 2025

 

You may recognise these symptoms

Failure demand
At Bupa and NAB, I consistently saw teams spending 20-30% of their time fixing problems that shouldn't exist. At Bupa we even had a name for it: the 'Bupa tax': The time for approvals. Chasing information. Correcting errors. Workarounds that the systems should connect automatically.

Revenue leakage
Work done but not billed. Opportunities missed because insight doesn't travel between teams. When it does, it needs more approvals to act.

Strategic blind spots
Decisions made with partial information. Finance data without customer insight. Customer data without operational reality. Progress celebrated on work that didn't actually benefit the business. Or the customer experience.

Key person risk
Knowledge trapped in heads and laptops, not systems. When people leave, capability walks out with them. Customers notice before you do.

That nagging feeling you're not greater than the sum of your parts? It's real. It's costly. And AI will amplify it.

  • I design the systems that turn siloed experts into coordinated teams
  • Identifying and removing failure demand, refining ways of working
  • Designing an operational architecture that makes value compound across the business.
  • This creates speed and adaptability so your best people can innovate and capture new revenue.

That's how you ensure AI accelerates the good, not the bad or the ugly.


Your Diagnostic

I rapidly build you a current state evidence base - not what people say is happening, but the real digital ecosystem: the ways we no longer need to work, the overlapping software, the gaps nobody talks about.

Those insights and shape of the future state are all translated into an Executive Shaping Paper, giving the clear business case your leadership team can digest, act on and fund if needed.

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Dan Bradley GAICD  |  Strategic Design Director  |  hello@xen.global  |  LinkedIn

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