As strategic planning kicks off at many organizations, it’s the perfect opportunity to leverage GenAI to accelerate and enhance the process. If you’re unsure of where to start, we recommend 5 steps to identify the highest impact use cases, select the most cost-effective solutions (including non-GenAI), and develop the most effective prompts and processes to take full advantage:

1. High impact use cases: prioritize the most tedious or repetitive tasks and opportunities for richer, deeper outputs
2. Build vs. buy: identify potential solutions including traditional, “off the shelf,” and customized
3. Test and learn: compare and contrast outputs – including status quo – for a range of scenarios and select the highest value solution
4. Prompt engineering: follow best practices and iterate for this critical step to get the most value for your investment
5. Adopt & iterate: document consistent procedures and effective prompts, provide training and change management, and reevaluate as the space evolves rapidly

Perplexity, ChatGPT, IBM’s Watson, Claude AI, Microsoft Copilot, and DeepSeek AI