AI strategy
A clear, prioritised AI agenda tied to your business strategy, competitive position and operating model. Counsel for boards and the C-suite on investments, vendors and risk.
AI strategy · Digital innovation · Transformation
Two decades of making AI work, from the lab to the boardroom.
Making AI work, for the business and the people in it. I advise boards and executive teams on AI strategy, digital innovation and transformation.
About
Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen
PhD, MBA · Basel, Switzerland
I help leaders and organisations create lasting value with human-centric AI. My work addresses the barriers that rarely show up in a business case: technology that does not fit the process, processes that ignore the people, and skills that lag behind the ambition.
Today I drive AI strategy and AI adoption at Roche, one of the largest companies in Europe. My path runs from academic research, with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, to enterprise leadership, with an Executive MBA from IMD (high honors). My writing appears in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, I have been cited in Forbes, and I am a frequent guest lecturer at universities and business schools.
Through BTN Advisory, I advise and train leadership teams, often together with other leading experts, to deliver results tailored to each client.
- Experience
- 20+
- years of experience in applied AI
- Publications
- 40+
- peer-reviewed publications
- Patents
- 2
- patents in machine learning
- Range of clients
- $30B
- revenue of the largest organisation advised; the smallest had three people
Advisory & training
Strategy your organisation can actually execute.
I work directly with senior leadership to cut through the noise and build an AI agenda that holds up in practice. Every engagement is tailored. No generic playbooks.
Digital innovation
Turning promising ideas and prototypes into tools your organisation can use, from AI-assisted building to products that run in production.
Transformation
Changing how work gets done: operating model, skills, incentives and adoption, so the value of AI shows up in results and in people's work.
Contact
Let's talk.
Whether you are shaping an AI strategy, need a trusted advisor, or want to see what is possible, I am happy to start with a conversation.