A start-to-finish manual for aligning your organization’s teams with the latest AI technologies
In Move First, Align Fast: Frameworks and Scorecards for Human-AI Alignment, seasoned technology and transformation leader Deepika Chopra delivers a comprehensive toolkit and guide for the people side of AI implementation. This is a step-by-step walkthrough for the human beings who will lead and participate in your organization’s AI transformation. It’s also an expansive collection of frameworks, scorecards, measurement tools, and interpretation guides for company leaders who want to keep their change initiatives on track and on schedule.
Chopra offers you practical resources, including the ACT Framework, ACT+M™ Scorecard, and the Human-AI Alignment Score (HAAS™), that she developed and refined through her decades-long career advising organizations like Citi, AIG, Siemens, and LPL. You’ll use them to ensure that you’re able to translate your strategy, tools, and your teams’ technical skills into a firm with powerful new capabilities.
Inside the book:
- Detailed walkthroughs for leaders who want to build new, AI-enabled organizations defined by trust, alignment, and a culture of innovation
- Effective strategies suited to both high-growth startup environments and large enterprises seeking to implement foundational changes to the way they use AI
- Detailed discussions of the Align, Cultivate, and Transform (ACT) Framework and the tools you need to measure your progress as you implement it across your teams
Virtually every organization in every industry can easily access powerful AI technologies with the potential to transform the way they do business. It’s become increasingly clear that the bottleneck is almost always cultivating teams that effectively deploy and integrate those technologies in a way that executes on the strategic vision of their leaders.
Move First, Align Fast is the roadmap that business and technology leaders have been waiting for to help them implement new technical capabilities into their companies in ways that ensure they’ll actually be used to their fullest potential. It’s an expert guide to aligning your human resources with the latest AI tools that will prove invaluable to managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and founders everywhere.
Table of Contents:
Author’s Note vii
Foreword by Murli Buluswar ix
Foreword by Mike Brady xi
Foreword by Dayton Semerjian xiv
Preface xvii
Introduction: The Human Imperative in the Age of AI xix
Part I The Gap 1
Chapter 1 Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast and Transformation for Lunch 3
Chapter 2 Execution Theater: Why Tools Alone Don’t Deliver 21
Chapter 3 The Misalignment Spiral: How Resistance Becomes Risk 45
Part II The ACT Framework 73
Chapter 4 Align: Creating Mindset, Clarity, and Conviction 75
Chapter 5 Cultivate: Building Skills, Literacy, and Trust 95
Chapter 6 Transform: Embedding AI into the Org’s DNA 117
Part III Scorecards That Scale Trust 139
Chapter 7 The ACT+M™: Measuring Leadership Readiness 143
Chapter 8 HAAS™: The Human-AI Alignment Score 161
Chapter 9 CFO Metrics for Human-Centric Transformation 181
Part IV The Alignment Playbook 207
Chapter 10 Alignment at Any Scale: From Startup to Enterprise 213
Chapter 11 Rituals, Retros, and Realignment 231
Chapter 12 Build Your ACT+M™ Score in 30 Days 245
Chapter 13 Leading the Alignment Era 257
Chapter 14 The Conviction Curve™: Leading for Belief 269
Appendix A: Notes on Methodology, Data Integrity, and AI Collaboration 289
Appendix B: Executive Alignment Toolkit 291
Appendix C: Quick-Start Implementation Guide 309
Glossary 312
About the Author 314
Acknowledgments 315
About the Author :
DEEPIKA CHOPRA is a seasoned technology leader who has spent the last two decades leading enterprise-wide digital and AI transformations in highly regulated industries. She is the creator of several effective change management frameworks, including the ACT Framework, ACT+M™ Scorecard, and the Human-AI Alignment Score.
