🧩 The Challenge The innovation team at a Fortune 500 healthcare and vision company was tasked with defining how AI could transform the entire enterprise, spanning supply chain, retail, ecommerce, and insurance.

They had just 30 days to present a full AI strategy roadmap to their executive leadership team. Their existing consulting partners, large global firms, estimated months of work and multi-million-dollar budgets, far exceeding the time and cost available.

We needed a partner who could move fast, speak the language of both executives and engineers, and deliver strategy with substance.

🚀 The SkillSource Approach: After an initial session with the Chief Innovation Officer, SkillSource deployed a specialized U.S.-based AI strategy team - all ex-FAANG and healthcare AI experts - covering product, design, engineering, and strategy.

Key actions included:

• Conducted rapid stakeholder interviews across multiple business units.

• Mapped over 40 potential AI use cases, prioritized by impact and feasibility.

• Defined the AI organizational maturity model, and created a 12-month execution roadmap.

• Delivered all materials and executive presentations within 30 days, at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting firms.

SkillSource brought both speed and depth, a rare combination. They delivered in one month what others said would take twelve.

📈 The Impact

• 🕒 Delivered complete AI Strategy Roadmap in under 30 days

• 💎 Identified high-ROI AI initiatives across 4 verticals: Supply Chain, Retail, Ecommerce, and Insurance

• 💵 Reduced cost by over 80% compared to traditional consulting proposals

• 🧐 Client’s lead AI advisor from SkillSource was later hired as Director of AI to establish the company’s in-house AI Center of Excellence

🌐 The Ongoing Partnership: Following the success of the roadmap engagement, the client expanded SkillSource’s role to support multiple AI proof-of-concepts and continued to leverage SkillSource for on-demand strategic and technical expertise as they scaled their AI Center of Excellence.