Nearform and Barry O’Reilly partner to solve the AI value realisation problem
Nearform is partnering with enterprise transformation adviser and best-selling author, Barry O'Reilly, to help turn organisations’ AI investments into measurable business value.
While enterprise leaders recognise the need to adopt AI across their organisations, many are still missing the right strategy and execution to truly unlock the technology’s value. Engineers may be using Claude Code, marketing teams may be leveraging ChatGPT or Jasper to accelerate their outputs, and employees elsewhere may be experimenting with their own pilots - but bolting AI on to existing operating models only amplifies how things already work.
More is needed to realise meaningful value from AI. Indeed, the AI-mature organisation needs to fundamentally change how it operates to solve the AI value problem - which Nearform and Barry O’Reilly, are uniquely adept in doing. Together, we help organisations move beyond isolated AI pilots and productivity experiments, by redesigning how decisions are made, how work gets done, and how AI creates value.
Most enterprises still treat AI as a technology initiative. We treat it as an organisational redesign challenge. Together with O’Reilly, we’re helping leaders to create ‘artificial organisations’ - enterprises built for better judgment, greater speed and lasting competitive advantage.
A burning platform for enterprise leaders
Alongside a shared Irish heritage, Nearform and O’Reilly bring decades of experience in solving the most challenging business problems through cutting edge technology-led solutions.
O’Reilly is the co-author of several industry-defining books, including Lean Enterprise, Unlearn and Artificial Organisations, which are based on his real-world experience advising top executives around the world.
While O’Reilly redesigns how C-suite leaders use AI to improve their decision-making processes, we build the products, platforms and agentic workflows that translate that desired operating model into reality. Put simply, O’Reilly helps leaders redesign the enterprise for AI, while we engineer that design into reality.
For 15 years, we have delivered complex, high-stakes and high-reward software engineering for organisations including Walmart, Starbucks, the Irish Government, Lululemon, Travelex. More recently we’ve expanded our partnerships with industry leaders including Anthropic, OpenAI and NVIDIA, enabling us to bring the best of the AI tech stack to each unique client challenge.
Through our heritage in engineering excellence and open source pioneering, as well as our embrace of emerging technologies and innovation, we enable enterprises to reinvent how they build, scale and operate. We embed AI at the core of engineering and business processes to drive measurable outcomes - realising the potential of AI through a measurable and sustained value.
Why now?
By now, almost every enterprise is investing in AI, but many are still struggling to translate that investment into value at scale.
Research from McKinsey & Company shows the challenge clearly: AI adoption is widespread, but very few organisations have successfully scaled AI beyond isolated pilots, because they haven't redesigned the decisions, workflows and operating models that AI depends on.
This partnership creates a different path: because AI doesn't create value on its own.
What to expect from us
The enterprises that win won't be the companies that deploy the most AI. They'll be the companies that redesign themselves around AI, with a new vision of what it makes possible.
AI exposes where judgment is slow, decisions are fragmented and workflows are poorly designed, and spotlights operating models that were built for a different era. The organisations creating lasting advantage won't simply deploy more AI, they'll redesign how people and technology spot opportunities, make decisions and act on them, together. Through our partnership with O’Reilly, we’ll help enterprises make this shift.
O’Reilly works with executive teams to redesign how their organisation makes decisions, allocates judgment and creates value in an AI-native world. We bring that new operating model to life by building the products, platforms, workflows and agentic systems that enable those new ways of working, at enterprise scale.
Strategy and execution move together, so organisational change is supported by the technology required to put it into practice.
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