Check AI adoption with the 7-S alignment lens
Use the McKinsey 7-S framework to identify operating-model misalignment in an AI adoption effort.
Product leadership wants AI-assisted roadmap research, but PMs still present manually summarized customer themes in the old intake template. 7-S alignment: strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, style, and staff must support the same AI-assisted behavior. The common trap is treating AI adoption as a strategy message plus tool access. Misaligned systems quietly pull people back to the old workflow. Strategy The stated strategy is clear: use AI to speed research synthesis while improving evidence quality. The intent exists, so the failure is not only communication. Systems The roadmap intake template has no place for AI source boundaries, confidence notes,…
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