Jan Bosch
In this series on the AI-driven company, we’ve discussed the challenges that companies experience in becoming more AI-driven as well as the implications for business processes and for product R&D. The general pattern is that AI starts off as support for and augmentation of humans and, over time, becomes the main executor, with humans taking … Read more
In this series, we’ve explored the journey toward the AI-driven company. First, we looked at the business process view and recently, we’ve focused on the R&D process. Here, we see an evolution from AI assistants to compensators, superchargers and finally system generators. Each stage represents a deeper integration of AI into how we design, build … Read more
As we’re taking ourselves through the R&D maturity model, we’ve reached the AI supercharger stage. This is where most of the team is substituted by AI agents. The idea is that an individual, or maybe a pair of people, supported by a set of AI agents, replaces the work of one or more Agile teams. … Read more
Product development requires several different skill sets. When focusing on the software part of a product, we can recognize the problem domain, technology, infrastructure and people as four main areas of competence. For a team to be effective, it needs to understand the problem or application domain so that it can realize new functions or … Read more
Software engineering has been one of the industries most actively adopting AI. There are few, if any, companies in this discipline that aren’t looking at large language models (LLMs) in some way, shape or form. For most, however, the technology is predominantly used in the lowest step of our maturity model, ie the AI assistant. … Read more
As part of this series on the AI-driven company, we discuss three maturity models that are the primary findings of the interview study we conducted during the spring. We completed the first one, AI in the business processes of the company. Now, it’s time to dive into the second maturity model, which focuses on the … Read more
As part of this series, we look at three maturity models: AI in the product, AI in product development and AI in the business and business processes. For the latter maturity model, we’ve now reached the final stage, the AI-first organization. In many ways, this is our definition of Nirvana, where every activity in the … Read more
As the summer in Sweden is coming to an end, I thought I’d share a few summer reflections before returning to the ongoing blog post series on the AI-driven company next week. The summer for me was cycling in Denmark with my youngest son, a 2 week trip to the US and some hiking by … Read more
In the first two steps of our maturity model, we’ve discussed the individual use of AI and the AI-driven automation of individual process steps. It’s in the third step, which we’ve dubbed “local AI-first,” where things become more disruptive. Here, rather than applying AI as a bolt-on automation tool, we adopt a zero-based design approach, … Read more
As companies start to explore what AI and especially LLMs and agentic AI can do for them, the first step is what we refer to as “playtime.” The term may sound a little unserious, but the idea is that the focus is on individuals starting to use AI for personal productivity. This means that the … Read more
