From AI Users to Solution Builders - by Wei Manfredi (Paperback)

About the Book

Transform your organization's approach to AI with the step-by-step guide to taking your workforce from AI users to AI solution builders.

Book Synopsis

Turn AI investment into scalable business impact by enabling your workforce to build the solutions they actually need.

From AI Users to Solution Builders is a strategic guide for senior AI, technology, and transformation leaders who want to move beyond underperforming, centralized AI initiatives, and unlock real enterprise value. As organizations struggle to translate AI into measurable results, this book shows how shifting from top-down deployment to workforce-led solution building creates faster adoption, stronger ROI, and sustained innovation.

Written by experienced AI leader Wei Manfredi, this book combines strategic insight with practical execution. It draws clear parallels between failed digital transformation efforts and current AI adoption challenges, while demonstrating how natural language interfaces are reshaping access to AI. By enabling non-technical professionals to design their own tools, organizations can embed AI directly into workflows, decision-making, and daily operations.

You'll learn how to:
- Shift from centralized AI models to workforce-driven innovation
- Enable employees to build AI solutions for real workflows
- Design scalable infrastructure for AI solution development
- Apply change management to overcome resistance and drive adoption
- Establish governance to protect data, IP, and organizational risk

Featuring real-world examples from organizations including Lululemon, Google, Oracle, and JPMorgan Chase, this book provides a proven framework for embedding AI into everyday collaboration, accelerating innovation, and future-proofing your organization's competitive advantage.

Themes include: AI strategy, AI adoption, workforce transformation, AI governance, enterprise AI, change management

About the Author

Wei Manfredi is a transformational technology leader with over two decades of experience in Fortune 100 companies. She is currently the Senior Vice President of AI and Architecture at IHG Hotels & Resorts. She was named among the 100 Most Influential AI Leaders by AIM and one of the Top AI Leaders in Retail for 2026 by Rethink Retail. She previously served as the Vice President of Global Architecture & Data/AI Engineering at McDonald's and held leadership positions at Lululemon, Google and Visa. She is based in Seattle, WA.