AI Strategy & Solutions

AI strategy that arrives in operations.

Use-case discovery, portfolio prioritisation and roadmapping for large enterprises and the upper mid-market — and the support to get the first solutions actually running.

Services

Where I start

Use-case discovery

Mapping end-to-end processes together with the business functions. The result is one consolidated portfolio instead of scattered individual initiatives.

Portfolio & roadmap

Prioritisation by business value and feasibility, lighthouse use cases with a defensible business case, and a roadmap that names its dependencies.

Governance & platform

Rules, roles and platform readiness — covering requirements from the business, architecture, security and compliance, including the EU AI Act and GDPR.

Strategy is the entry point, delivery is what makes the difference.

Approach

Four steps, in this order

The order is the point. Anyone who evaluates before mapping is evaluating assumptions.

01

Map

Processes and current state with the business functions, in workshops and at the workplace — not remotely and not from a slide.

02

Evaluate

Impact times feasibility, with evidence that procurement and an architecture board can recalculate.

03

Decide

A portfolio that also says no. What does not hold up is dropped before it binds budget and attention.

04

Deliver

Accompanying the first solutions into operation — with the teams who have to carry them afterwards.

Engagements

What I have worked on recently

Semiconductor manufacturing · globally operating group

AI in quality management, across sites

A workshop series with the quality management functions, assessment of AI-supported solutions by prerequisites, implementation effort and risk, resulting in a multi-year project roadmap. Human-in-the-loop as a fixed design principle.

Financial services · large group

From prototype platform to operational readiness

Strategic steering of a company-wide AI platform initiative: assessment of platform maturity, identification of architecture gaps, security and guardrail concept — the target is operation for more than 130,000 users.

Industrial technology · global group

One portfolio instead of many initiatives

Building and steering a global AI use-case portfolio, a strategic roadmap balancing innovation, compliance and resources, plus a KPI framework that evidences progress rather than asserting it.

Mechanical engineering · industrial mid-market

Adoption the workforce actually carries

Company-wide survey and workshops to capture the potential, technical and commercial benchmarking of platforms, a communication and change concept — so the roadmap does not fail on acceptance.

Engagements are described without client or agency names and without dates. I share detail in conversation as far as confidentiality permits.

Portrait of Johannes Kähm

Person

Who you work with

Business Engineer from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Technical University Darmstadt (TUD). More than twelve years in product leadership and technology consulting in various industries.

Where needed, additional specialists from my network of consultants and freelancers provide support.

Contact

First call

Tell me in two sentences what this is about. I reply within two working days.