

Is Your Organisation Ready to Launch an AI Venture Factory?
A Board‑Level Blueprint
For mid-sized companies, where the core business is exhibiting low year-on-year revenue growth and experiencing margin pressure, building and operating an AI Venture Factory is a proven path to establishing new high growth vectors and avoiding disruption by AI-native companies.
Yet, some boards hesitate because they lack a clear view of the organisational enablers required for success – especially in times with scarce resources. The condensed AI Venture Factory Readiness Blueprint below distils those enablers into five familiar categories – Strategy, People, Process, Structure and Technology – with three design elements in each. Boards and executives can use it as a quick diagnostic to gauge whether your organisation is prepared for AI venture building, and where to focus investment in the next quarter.
Condensed AI Venture Factory Readiness Blueprint
Putting the Blueprint to Work
A Blueprint only delivers value when it informs concrete action. I recommend three quick wins:
- Score each element from one to five based on current state.
- Plot scores as a heat map to spotlight gaps. Tackle red zones before the next venture board or investment committee meeting.
- Assign an executive sponsor to each priority gap and review progress at quarterly board or investment committee meetings.
An AI Venture Factory is not a side project. It is best run a separate (from the “mothership”) strategic operating unit demanding rigor across strategy, talent, process, structure and technology. Use this blueprint to create shared terminology and commitment across the company so that your organisation can turn proprietary data into new AI-driven business growth vectors.
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Tom Dissing is the founder and Managing Director of Technology Connect. He helps boards and executives drive growth and avoid disruption through artificial intelligence (AI), innovation and venture building
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