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# Six questions to test your AI strategy, from MIT Sloan
- URL: https://globalfeed.ai/en/six-questions-to-test-your-ai-strategy-from-mit-sloan/
- Published: 2026-09-01T18:47:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T18:47:42.000Z
- Description: George Westerman of MIT Sloan lays out six questions for executives shaping an AI strategy; most of them probe how the company works rather than the technology it buys.
- Author: GlobalFeed Editor
- Tags: mit sloan, Artificial Intelligence, strategy, management, x-MITSloan, dil-en, elle, video, x-gitti

George Westerman, a senior lecturer in information technology at MIT Sloan School of Management and a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, has published a six-question checklist for executives working out an AI strategy. He built it on case studies with Takeda, Ferrovial and Dentsu Creative, and MIT Sloan shared the piece, [6 Questions to Guide Your AI Strategy](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/6-questions-to-guide-your-ai-strategy?ref=globalfeed.ai), on its Ideas Made to Matter site and its X account.

The starting point is an awkward statistic: between 70 and 95 percent of AI pilots never spread across the organization. Westerman's diagnosis: "The hard part is not the AI. You're not going to get any value from the technology unless you do business differently." Companies that earn a return on AI, he argues, do so because they change how they work.

## The six questions

1. **What is your shared ambition?** How do you want to do business differently, and what does that change bring your customers and your employees? Efficiency on its own does not count as an ambition.
2. **How will you govern your efforts?** Set up governance as the force that pushes initiatives forward instead of a brake that slows them.
3. **How will you capture value as you scale AI?** Value arrives when use spreads across the whole organization and executives stand behind it.
4. **Is your tech foundation solid?** Clean data, good tools and integrated systems are the base of any strategy.
5. **Is your culture ready to move fast?** That takes openness to experiments and to decisions driven by data rather than past habit.
6. **Do your people have the right skills?** If the people who must carry the transformation feel threatened by it, or find the technology alien, the transformation fails.

The list gives its own weighting away: at least three of the six are culture questions, not technology questions.