Engagement map · fig. 1 — the consulting lifecycle

Where is your AI initiative
actually stuck?

Six scenario questions. One lifecycle map. Find the station you skipped — and get its playbook.

Diagnosed from Scott C. Walker’s essay “The AI Consulting Engagement Is Bigger Than the Assessment” · LinkedIn

Diagnosis card

Fig. 2 — the engagement map: PRACTICE → DIAGNOSE → SCOPE → DELIVER → ADOPT → MEASURE. Red flag: where you’re stuck. Dashed: stations you sailed past.
Your symptoms
The missing station’s playbook
Field notes
Deployment is not adoption. Scott C. Walker’s crux: a company can buy, configure, and kick off AI — and six months later, very little has changed. The engagement shouldn’t end at implementation; it should end with an answer to “what changed?”