Most AI transformations fail to achieve their stated business objectives. BCG, MIT Sloan, Gartner, IDC, and RAND each put the figure somewhere between seventy and ninety per cent. The headline number varies; the pattern does not. Executives who have lived through a failed AI initiative recognise it on the first page.
TRANSFORM is for the chief executive, chief operating officer, chief digital officer, or transformation leader who has been told to make AI deliver business value and has not yet found a method that works at scale.
Sixteen chapters across three parts:
- The Hidden Crisis - why smart executives keep buying technology that does not solve their problem
- The TRANSFORM Blueprint - the nine-phase framework: Target Setting, Readiness Assessment, Architecture, Navigate Change, Strategic Implementation, Full-Scale Deployment, Optimisation, Results Measurement, Maturity Development
- Advanced Implementation - industry playbooks, the governance framework that prevents expensive disasters, building an AI-native competitive moat, and a ninety-day quick-start guide
The cases are real. JPMorgan Chase's COIN platform. Schneider Electric's smart-factory programme. Bank of America's Erica. Maersk's logistics AI. Mayo Clinic's clinical AI work. Where the case draws from advisory engagements under non-disclosure, the firm is labelled as a composite. There are no fabricated metrics.
Three working appendices: the TRANSFORM framework quick reference, fifty-plus executive templates and assessment frameworks, and industry-specific implementation guides for financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.
For executives who would rather build the discipline once than pay the failure-rate tax three times.
Sotiris Spyrou has advised on AI transformation, AI strategy, and responsible AI for boards and executive teams in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and the public sector.