---
id: "action-deploy-gen-ai-company-wide"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Three Guiding Principles"]
tags: ["deployment", "innovation"]
related: ["concept-decentralized-innovation-at-scale"]
action: "Deploy Gen AI tools to every employee to enable decentralized, bottom-up innovation."
outcome: "Generates hundreds of grassroots use cases and accelerates product time-to-market."
speakers: ["Rob Fauber"]
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-cl-93-legacy-financial-all-in-genai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/03/how-a-legacy-financial-institution-went-all-in-on-gen-ai"
sourceTitle: "How a Legacy Financial Institution Went All In on Gen AI"
---
# Deploy Gen AI to All Employees Immediately

## Action — Deploy Gen AI to All Employees Immediately

**Do:** Provide generative AI tools to **every employee** across the organization **from day one**, rather than restricting access to specialized technical teams, to foster bottom-up innovation and surface diverse use cases.

**Outcome:** Generates **hundreds of grassroots use cases** and accelerates product time-to-market.

### Connections
- Enacts Principle 1 of [[framework-moodys-guiding-principles]] and the concept [[concept-decentralized-innovation-at-scale]].
- Requires the safety net of [[concept-generative-intelligence-group]] and [[prereq-secure-infrastructure]].