Post by Dr.-Ing. Toufik Al Khawli

Thanks Giorgio Torre for sharing. It started with a simple Dash app — just a prototype, not even in production. But it sparked something much bigger. I remember building it late one evening — a small tool showcasing AI use cases that I have done in the past across computer vision, process mining, mathematical optimization, and robotics, and the emerging wave of GenAI. At the time, I didn’t think it was revolutionary. I shared it with leadership — Andreas Odenkirchen, Martin Whyte, and Michael Bruns — during one of our monthly sessions. That made all the difference: they encouraged, challenged, and backed the big vision. The momentum started. First our AI champions from procurement, then R&D, then supply chain, then manufacturing stepped in. It got into Finance Transformation, Strategy&, and beyond. When we built what eventually became the AI Compass, the landscape was very different. We were still evaluating GPT-3.5. Multimodal LLMs, copilots, and advanced agent frameworks hadn’t fully arrived. But we knew: use cases mattered most. Now, everything is shifting — fast. Every new capability is unlocking new use cases. We’re seeing things differently. We’re thinking differently. And with every evolution, the number of relevant, high-impact use cases is rising — EXPONENTIALLY. That’s what makes the AI Compass even more relevant today: It’s not a static model. It’s a living reflection of what works — in the real world. Because when it comes to AI, it’s not about “Why us?” What have we done in this field? What problems did we solve? What impact did we generate? And what will we solve next? Link to the compass: https://lnkd.in/eh6usEU8 Andreas Odenkirchen Michael Bruns Martin Whyte Prof. Dr. Frauke Schleer-van Gellecom, Andreas Hufenstuhl, Dr. Matthias Schlemmer Wolf Goehler Dennis Bartsch Katharina Nowak Alexandra Georgia Ciobanescu Jan Lipka Victoria Reifschneider Carsten Richter Nele Steigerwald Phil Schäfer Ulli Leucht Jan C. Schäfer Christian Koch Maximilian Franke Dr. Ahmad Rabanizada Marius Maximilian Müller Pavel Pesetsky