Innovate with Azure AI Platform: Apex Systems' AI Pathfinder Rapid Strategy POCA

🤖 AI Pathfinder+ Workshop: Accelerate AI Innovation on Azure with Strategy, Prototyping & Planning

🧭 Overview:
AI Pathfinder+ is a structured 6-week consulting engagement led by Apex Systems’ AI strategy and engineering leaders. This offering helps organizations kickstart their Azure AI journey by identifying high-impact opportunities, aligning business and technical teams, and designing a clear roadmap for execution. Through interactive sprints, value mapping, and prototyping, participants gain actionable insights, stakeholder alignment, and a blueprint for scaling AI responsibly within their Azure ecosystem.

📘 Program Phases:
🔍 Learn – Understand the current AI landscape and its relevance in your industry.
💡 Explore – Engage in design-thinking workshops to ideate practical AI use cases.
🧭 Navigate – Value-map AI ideas and define a business-aligned roadmap.
🎨 Design – Develop user journey maps, mockups, and gather early feedback.
🚀 Build – Create an agile development plan with prioritized backlog.

🧱 Key Elements:
📍 Prescriptive Guidance – Where are you going?
🎯 Smart Goals – What are you hoping to achieve?
🧩 Value-Driven Roadmap – Which efforts will drive impact?
📝 Action Plan – How will you get there? (Includes feasibility and recommendations)

👥 Facilitation & Delivery:
🧠 AI Thought Leadership
🤝 Collaborative Brainstorming
🗺 Strategic Roadmapping
🛠 Action Plan Creation

Delivery formats: Remote, On-site, or Hybrid options available.

🎯 Audience:
Designed for business and technical leaders
👥 Ideal group size: up to 20 attendees

🧰 Resources Provided:
🎙 Facilitated by an experienced AI Strategy Coach
🖥 Online whiteboarding tools (Mural, Miro) for virtual sessions
🧾 Physical whiteboards & stickies for in-person delivery

⏱ Duration:
🧠 Strategy Sprint: Two half-day sessions with key stakeholders
🛠 Design Sprint: Four full-day sessions with product and technical teams

✅ Customer Outcomes:
🧭 Cross-Functional Team Alignment
📊 Expert Recommendations and Technical Feasibility Review
🧪 Validated Use Case or Prototype Ready for Azure AI Scaling

🏁 Final Deliverable: By the end of the engagement, your team will receive a prioritized action plan, expert insights, and either a validated prototype or a high-value use case ready for scaled Azure AI implementation.