People decide.Processes connect. Technology supports.AI-generated SMC concept illustration
More than a prompt. More than software.
What is an SMC Blueprint?
A Blueprint is a reusable plan for addressing a task with AI. That task may be developing a target picture, enabling a team or implementing a workflow. The plan connects the approach, responsibilities, suitable tools and quality criteria.
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A clear scope
The task, desired outcome and explicit limits. Not a promise to automate everything.
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A usable approach
Steps, roles, methods and suitable technical building blocks, adapted to the organisation.
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A way to verify quality
Reference sources, test cases, human review and criteria for handover.
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A foundation to build on
Documentation, open questions and reviewed lessons for the next version.
Selected examples and their current stage
Different tasks. A connected approach.
Open an example to see how people, processes and technology come together.
01Established 8P model · Blueprint in developmentFind direction.+
What should your organisation look like when AI plays a useful part?
Use the eight P perspectives to develop a shared target picture. Connect the impact on people, value creation and collaboration, then agree priorities.
The prism, explained: eight perspectives, one target picture.
The prism on our homepage stands for this connected view. The eight P perspectives help surface dependencies and agree where change matters. They are not eight compulsory projects.
P1Perspective
P2People
P3Partners
P4Product
P5Process
P6Production / service delivery
P7Personalised customer interaction
P8Principles
Your existing strategy framework can also provide the foundation. The Blueprint structures the application; 8P provides the perspectives.
A good fit: When leadership and teams need a shared direction, not another list of AI tools.
How we would work on it together
Describe today’s situation and the ambition across the eight perspectives.
Connect dependencies, trade-offs and priorities with the people concerned.
Record a target picture and agree the first fields of action.
What we need
Your existing strategy, key constraints and the people who can set priorities. An existing framework can replace 8P.
Where this ends
A target picture provides direction. Technical design, investment approval and implementation are separate steps.
02Format Blueprints planned · not yet developedLearn together.+
How does experimentation become a capability that stays with the team?
Learn on your own tasks through Promptathons and Agentathons. The planned Blueprints connect preparation, learning tasks, facilitation and transfer into everyday work.
A good fit: When people need to practise a useful way of working on their own tasks.
How we would work on it together
Agree the audience, real tasks, learning goal and permitted tools.
Work in guided sprints and review both the results and how they were produced.
Choose what to practise next and who will support transfer.
What we need
Suitable tasks, available AI access and protected or neutral practice material. Agentathons also need an agreed technical learning environment.
Where this ends
The reusable format packages are planned. Bespoke Promptathons can already be discussed. A learning prototype is not production-ready.
Planned format Blueprints, not yet developed. The descriptions below outline the intended approach; they are not fixed curricula.
Promptathon
Teams work on real tasks with AI, compare approaches and review results. The focus is thoughtful prompting and shared learning.
Agentathon
Teams design and test a simple AI assistant or agent-supported workflow. They learn to define tasks, access, boundaries and human approval points.
Promptathons are already part of our training offer. For an Agentathon, we first clarify the learning objective, prerequisites and approved tool environment with you.
People
Clarify the audience, prior knowledge, facilitation and responsibility for follow-through.
Processes
Connect preparation, hands-on work, review and a practical next step.
Technology
Use approved AI tools and suitable sample data. Test agents in a bounded learning environment.
The intended result: Depending on the learning goal: completed tasks, reusable ways of working or an initial agent prototype, with an agreed transfer plan. No automatic production approval.
05Method in use · Blueprint package under reviewMake better decisions.+
How does a useful AI response become a sound decision?
Work on a current leadership challenge and build AI capability along the way. As a consulting sprint or strategic Promptathon: broaden perspectives, examine assumptions and weigh up alternatives.
People
Domain experts challenge the results and retain the decision.
Processes
The question, perspectives and quality criteria are clarified.
Technology
Suitable AI tools support analysis and the exploration of alternatives.
The intended result: Traceable decision inputs with options, assumptions and open questions.
Concept illustrations, not product screenshots or customer photographs.
The learning organisation
Experience should travel further than the project.
AI can help structure knowledge, apply methods and prepare results. Sustainable learning requires more: people who verify, decide and improve the shared foundation.
We use AI in delivery, too.
For example, AI can structure approved source material, draft a process description or prepare test cases. We use the Blueprint to define the task and quality criteria. People review the output; your process owners and IT agree what can be adopted.
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Adapt
Choose the scope, roles and permitted tools for your organisation.
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Apply & test
Work on real cases. Review outcomes, exceptions and limits together.
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Capture learning
Separate project-specific knowledge from potentially reusable lessons.
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Review & release
Only approved, generalisable improvements enter a new Blueprint version.
↶The next version becomes the starting point for the next application.
Learning does not mean sharing everything.
Customer data and internal knowledge remain in the agreed context. Only authorised, generalisable insights may be reused. There is no automatic release and no autonomous transfer into other organisations.
Familiar building blocks. Connected differently.
The SMC foundation behind each plan.
Blueprints do not replace our methods. They connect them with a concrete implementation task. A framework gives direction, a method structures the work and a format brings people together.
Optional: see the SMC house and the three entry routes +
Top-down starts with strategic direction; bottom-up starts with team learning; a lighthouse project starts with a concrete use case. These are complementary entry routes, not stages or separate Blueprint categories. A Blueprint can support any of them.
Original illustration from the SMC company presentation (German labels). The three building blocks are explained in English below.
Framework
A shared direction
The 8P target pictures help teams consider the organisation from multiple perspectives.
Our aim is to make suitable Blueprints usable with established partners, including partners already supporting small and medium-sized businesses. Close customer relationships and reusable SMC expertise can complement each other.
This capability is being developed. A Blueprint is only ready for transfer once its application, responsibilities and quality checks have been validated.
