Client story How Avnet Is Scaling Enterprise AI for Differentiation
Client
Avnet, a global electronic components distributor supporting 1M+ customers at every stage of the product lifecycle
Industry: Technology solutions
Challenge
Scale enterprise AI innovation with a consistent, governed approach to identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing new opportunities across the business.
Outcomes
Insight Prism™ for a repeatable AI prioritization framework — resulting in a high-value use case pipeline, faster decision-making, and enterprise-wide scale of AI initiatives
Solutions: Artificial Intelligence
As a global technology leader, Avnet has an established, robust foundation for AI innovation — powered by a defined enterprise AI strategy, governance model, and active roadmap driving transformation across the business.
As momentum increases, demand continues to grow. It’s why Avnet’s focus is on scaling their AI initiatives effectively, ensuring consistent prioritization, alignment, and execution across a growing pipeline of ideas.
AI decision-making with structure
To meet their next phase of growth, Avnet partnered with Insight to leverage Prism™ as a structured scaling and prioritization layer — not as the strategy itself — to help operationalize Avnet’s existing AI roadmap.
Working within Avnet’s established AI framework, Insight facilitated a focused engagement to strengthen how opportunities are identified, evaluated, and prioritized:
- Assessed targeted domains including Marketing, Cable Assembly Operations, and Internal Training (FAE Institute)
- Conducted SME interviews to ground opportunities in real business context
- Evaluated and refined existing AI use cases while surfacing additional, data-driven opportunities for consideration within Avnet’s established roadmap
Insight’s Prism™ enables a consistent, repeatable approach to intake, evaluation, and prioritization — helping ensure every new AI opportunity is aligned to Avnet’s broader strategic objectives and scalable execution model.
The impact: From isolated ideas to enterprise-scale execution
Rather than redefining strategy, Prism™ enhances how Avnet executes against it, bringing structure, clarity, and scalability to the AI pipeline:
- Prioritized, high-value use case pipeline: Avnet refined and aligned AI opportunities to strategic priorities — focusing investment where it matters most.
- Stronger throughput from idea to execution: A structured intake and evaluation process improved how ideas transition into actionable initiatives.
- Executive alignment and momentum: Insights were elevated to leadership, reinforcing alignment and accelerating next-phase decision-making.
- Repeatable scaling model for AI innovation: Moving beyond isolated innovation, Avnet can apply a repeatable operating mechanism to continuously evaluate, prioritize, and scale AI opportunities across the enterprise.
“ Insight has been a valued partner for many years. Their team takes the time to understand our business and meets us where we need them, which helps us drive meaningful results.
Max Chan
CIO,
Avnet
Turning AI strategy into sustained advantage
Avnet’s AI strategy continues to serve as the engine driving transformation across the organization. Prism™ helps ensure that as new ideas emerge, they are consistently aligned, governed, prioritized, and scalable.
Together, Avnet’s enterprise AI strategy and Prism™ create a balanced model — one where strategy defines direction, governance protects execution, and innovation scales responsibly with measurable business value.
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By Insight Editor / 31 Jul 2026 / Topics: Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Compliance , Consulting services
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