Through our Disrupt Avanade program, we’re uncovering what’s possible with AI and empowering our people with new tools to be the best versions of themselves. With early access to Microsoft technologies, we’re conducting rapid experimentation and quickly getting value-added solutions into production so we can pass those learnings to our clients, all with the proper responsible AI framework in place.

The generative AI revolution is different than anything that’s come before. Arguably the most significant change in the way we work since the agricultural and industrial revolutions, this technology is rapidly moving from simply automating tasks to supercharging human capabilities.

Like our clients, the challenge we face is ensuring AI is implemented and scaled responsibly so that work improves for everyone. After all, we believe AI-first means people-first. That’s why we’re at the forefront of defining, making and powering what matters for an AI-first future with Disrupt Avanade and our School for AI, driven by our Center for AI. By empowering our people with generative AI tools, we’re bringing practical, first-hand insights to our clients, helping them accelerate their own AI adoption.

Disrupt is an Avanade-wide program that uncovers what’s possible with AI, driving our own end-to-end transformation around three core pillars:

• Explore, build and accelerate innovation at speed.
• Imagine new ways of working to enhance the employee experience, maximizing productivity and impact.
• Create business value through strategic innovation, cost efficiency, risk mitigation and accelerated growth.

This multi-threaded approach is all about identifying and launching key AI use cases that align our people and technology with our strategic goals, exploring scenarios and opportunities across all business functions. Within the first nine months of the Disrupt program:

Solutions that have come out of the Disrupt program to date include:

• Job posting generator: Our HR team can create job postings 87% faster using generative AI, saving over a thousand hours per year that can be used to create more personal connections with candidates.
• Account insights: We use AI to provide client insights, comparing multiple accounts and summarizing key themes to better understand and manage relationships, saving up to 1.5 hours per analysis.
• Policy Q&A: Employees are finding relevant company policies and extracting information 90% faster through intuitive search.

It’s clear the Disrupt program is living up to its name, shaking up the way our employees work and collaborate every day. What’s next for the program?

• Continuous innovation: We know that the best new ideas will come from within our dynamic environment. Disrupt will continue to enable us to define what matters and be an integral part of creating the future.
• Deepen AI capabilities: Our AI lab and scale-up team will make what matters, continuing experimentation, inspiring greatness and enhancing AI capabilities and tools.
• Redefine work: We’ll pave the way for an AI-first approach to work, powering what matters by redefining ways of working in an AI-first world, accelerating impact for ourselves and our clients and collectively leaning into new opportunities.

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