Dr. Olaf Bach

Dr. Olaf Bach is part of Horn & Company's Swiss team as Associate Partner and point of contact for the firm's AI transformation offering in Switzerland. He combines AI transformation expertise with twenty years as an organization and change management expert: from the end-to-end AI integration of a 600-plus-person business unit at a Swiss global bank, AI strategy work with leadership teams and workforce planning to governance, organization and change projects for banks and insurers. His principle: AI implementation is organizational transformation.

Before Horn & Company, he ran his own organization design and transformation consultancy in Swiss financial services for ten years – seven mandates at one Swiss global bank – after five years as project manager at Booz & Company in reorganization and strategy execution in pharmaceuticals, financial services and energy & utilities.

Alongside consulting, he teaches Organization Design and Co-Intelligence as well as Systemic Change Management & AI in the Master's programme at the University of St. Gallen and is the founder of an AI-supported platform for executive education on the job. He publishes on strategic workforce planning and AI, AI governance, AI in investment advisory and asset management.

AI TRANSFORMATION: FROM EXPERIMENTs TO CONTROLLED BUSINESS IMPACT

AI investments are on the rise — but value isn’t created by technology alone. Many organizations have AI platforms, pilot projects, and use-case pipelines. The more challenging task is to reliably make AI effective in the business: with clear ownership, process integration, data and knowledge availability, testing, governance, and adoption.

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STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING IN THE AGE OF AI

AI, the skills shortage, and cost pressures are fundamentally changing the requirements for workforce planning. Traditional headcount-based approaches are no longer sufficient: It is now crucial to understand how work is changing, which roles are affected, and what measures need to be taken as a result.

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