AI Strategy & Transformation
AI creates value when it changes how work happens, how judgement is supported and how outcomes are measured. Tessiant helps organisations move beyond disconnected pilots and isolated tools, identifying where AI can improve real business performance and embedding what works into the operating model.
Yemi Olagbaiye
Director
Anna Barsby
Managing Partner
Key Challenges We’re Helping Clients Solve
- Moving beyond disconnected AI pilots and experiments
- Identifying where AI can create measurable value
- Prioritising use cases against real outcomes
- Building the data, technology & governance foundations
- Embedding AI into workflows, roles and ways of working
- Scaling what works safely and sustainably
we make AI practical, governed and value-led.
Many organisations now have AI tools, pilots and ideas. But the harder challenge is turning that activity into measurable change in how the business runs.
We help clients identify where AI can genuinely improve performance, prove value in focused areas and embed what works into everyday operations.
Our approach connects business value, operating model, technology and data, so AI is not treated as a standalone experiment but as part of how work gets done.
Business Value
Finding where AI can improve performance, reduce friction or create measurable benefit.
Operating Model
Redesigning workflows, roles, governance and adoption so AI-enabled change sticks.
Technology & Data
Understanding the data, systems, architecture and partner choices needed to deliver safely and sustainbly.
Listen: Buy vs Build in AI
In our recent conversation, Yemi Olagbaiye and Anna Barsby discuss one of the key questions facing leaders: when to build AI capability, when to buy existing tools and how to make the right decision for the business. Joined by special guests Simon Pakenham-Walsh, CIO at River Island and Alex Cross, CTO EMEA at CI&T.
FROM AI INTEREST TO MEASURABLE VALUE
MAP
Identify where AI could improve real work, prioritise the strongest opportunities and define the value case.
- Opportunity mapping
- Use case prioritisation
- Readiness assessment
- Value case development
PROVE
Test priority opportunities with real users, real operating context and clear success measures.
- Sprint design
- Pilot shaping
- Success criteria
- Benefits validation
EMBED
Make AI part of how the business works, with the right governance, ownership & adoption.
- Workflow redesign
- Roles and decision rights
- Governance and controls
- Change and adoption planning
SCALE
Extend what works across teams, functions or business areas with evidence and control.
- Roadmap development
- Portfolio management
- Scaling playbooks
- Benefits tracking
WHERE AI CONNECTS TO OUR WORK
AI connects into our wider work across transformation, technology, operations and M&A.
Technology advisory
AI readiness, data foundations, technology choices, governance and delivery roadmaps.
Business transformation
AI-enabled change programmes, stakeholder alignment, adoption and benefits realisation.
Retail Performance
AI applied to high-volume operational workflows such as forecasting, replenishment, markdown, promotions & customer exceptions.
M&A / Separation
AI, data and technology as sources of deal value, integration risk and post-deal operating model change.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
AI-enabled process improvement for an online grocery retailer
Tessiant reviewed a heavily manual statement matching process, identified process and reporting gaps and worked with the client’s software provider to optimise the current solution. The work increased immediate statement match rates by 20% and created a roadmap for future-AI powered document parsing capability.
Example areas we help clients explore
Forecasting & Planning
Using AI to improve demand signals, planning assumptions and operational responsiveness.
Operational Workflows
Applying AI to high-volume processes where teams make repeated judgement calls, handle exceptions or reconcile disconnected information.
Knowledge Work & Productivity
Helping teams reduce manual effort, improve quality and accelerate analysis.
customer & colleague operations
Using AI to triage work, surface exceptions and support more consistent outcomes.
“Most organisations don’t have an AI ideas problem. They have a value, ownership and operating model problem”
Ready to move from AI activity to measurable value?
We show you where AI can help improve how your business runs.