Horizon 1 initiatives tend to be the most complex and costly, enabling you to take the majority of the financial and technical impact of AI investment upfront.

Horizon 1 initiatives have the most disruptive influence on your business model and the markets you operate in.

Horizon 1 initiatives provide a chance to create incremental value from AI by improving current business processes while building experience for subsequent, more complex initiatives.

The technical teams need to make sure the solution has the latest and greatest AI capabilities.

All relevant teams need to be involved in design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance to make sure the solution functions properly and achieves its business objectives.

Line-of-business leaders need to make sure the solution costs as little as possible.

Train all business domain experts in data science, enabling them to write code and train machine learning models.

Retrain business domain experts to perform other tasks - AI will replace them in their current roles.

Encourage domain experts to use AI copilots and no-code AI development tools to expand their impact across the enterprise.