56%

Global CEOs saw “neither higher revenues
nor lower costs from AI”

PwC 29th Global CEO Survey, 2026

95%

Organizations getting zero return
from Generative AI pilots

MIT NANDA Report, 2025

60%

Pilots that fail to scale beyond
controlled environment

Forrester Research, 2026

Strategy of Things helps mid-market companies build the capability to turn AI investments into measurable business impact.

Are your operations really ready for AI?

AI success doesn't just happen. It is the result of informed and deliberate decisions, actions and investments made by the organization.

How do you know?

Our SoT AI IQ™ Assessment evaluates your organization against the nine layers of our SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model to help you become AI impact-ready. We provide a comprehensive report, along with specific recommendations of where to focus and what to do next.

Use SoT AI IQ™ Assessment to:

Support strategic planning initiatives
You're developing an AI strategy, responding to board questions, or planning major investments in AI. You need a holistic baseline of where you stand today.

Diagnose structural AI scaling and operationalization challenges
Your AI initiatives are not giving the impact expected. Projects stall, underdeliver, or can't seem to scale. You need to know where to focus to fix this.

New to the role
You were hired or promoted into leading an existing AI program. You need a complete and unbiased picture of what you have before doing anything.

Are you doing the right AI initiatives?

You have a long list of potential AI initiatives, each representing different levels of business value, risk and complexity, strategic relevance, resources and investment. The "right" ones create value and advance the organization. The "wrong" ones create risk and waste time, resources and capital.

How do you know?

Our Portfolio Compass™ service takes a process that is typically subjective and political, and turns it into one that is informed, objective, defensible and repeatable. You get a portfolio of AI initiatives that is most appropriate for you, based on objective considerations.

Use SoT Portfolio Compass™ to:

Build your AI portfolio
You're building an AI roadmap and allocating budget across AI initiatives. You need to assemble a portfolio of initiatives that is justified and defensible.

Review and adjust your existing AI portfolio
Your AI initiatives aren't giving the expected impact. You need to evaluate your existing initiatives, see what should be paused, continued and added.

Situation

An innovative healthcare services company has a portfolio of 42 diverse AI initiatives under consideration. Deciding what to do is challenging as each project varies in technical complexity, AI type, business value, and investment needed. The company has limited resources and capabilities. The VP of Operations is tasked with presenting to the board a short list of projects for review and funding.

What we did

• Aligned company's priorities to evaluation criteria
• Standardized information collected for each individual initiative
• Scored and ranked all 42 use cases using Portfolio Compass™
• Mapped initiatives into portfolio categories
• Worked with VP to select initial list of projects

Outcome

Two ways to get started, depending on where you are and what you need.