Move First, Align Fast

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.

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