SDR Advisory has seen strategic investments actually produce large falls in productivity.  To get a positive return, management needs to know how to manage the  investment. Data analysis and operating model design will support that in conjunction with a clear idea of how to make productivity gains.  

Having a brilliant idea and implementing it isn't enough to achieve project success. It's commonly believed project success is measured by the completion of the ‘iron triangle’: scope, time and cost, but project performance should be defined by its outputs, outcomes, and impacts: objectives we all agree to.

Organisations often focus on  incremental improvements to internal operations & business systems that invariably produce two results: either a web of quick fixes that reduce efficiency over time, or a hodgepodge of haphazard fixes.

As with all innovations AI has created its own manifest destiny which will either vaporise human skills, or stop the productivity paralysis that afflicts most developed economies. Such dichotomies are comforting, like choosing between good and evil.