Together, we analyse your strategic objectives, identify specific AI use cases and evaluate them in terms of maturity, business impact and technical feasibility.
Artificial Intelligence Applied
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how organisations work, decide and grow. As the H&Z Group, we combine strategic consulting expertise with the technical capabilities of H&Z.digital to turn AI into practical business value. Our approach brings together responsible governance, scalable architecture and user focused design, ensuring that AI becomes a reliable enabler of performance and innovation.
Harnes Artificial Intelligence
Making AI Practical, Safe and Scalable
AI offers significant opportunities across procurement, supply chain, finance and operations. Many organisations, however, struggle to move beyond isolated ideas or experiments.
We address this challenge by integrating clear use case logic, strategic targets, responsible governance and technical depth. This ensures that AI becomes a trusted and value creating capability across the organisation. We enable companies to accelerate digital progress while maintaining transparency, compliance and full control.
A Clear Path from Idea to Operational Impact
A successful AI journey begins with strategic clarity, responsible governance and a deep understanding of organisational needs. The H&Z Group combines consulting expertise and the technical capabilities of H&Z.digital to create solutions that are secure, scalable and meaningful in day to day operations.
Use Case Scoping and Prioritisation
The process starts with identifying and evaluating AI opportunities based on business value, feasibility and strategic relevance.
AI Operating Model and Governance
A structured system of roles, governance principles, processes and platform architecture is established to ensure safe and consistent AI adoption across the organisation.
Prototypes, Proof of Concepts and MVPs
Functional prototypes are developed and tested in real application scenarios to validate performance, user acceptance and measurable benefit.
Deployment and Integration
AI solutions are integrated into existing systems, data environments and workflows, ensuring that new capabilities deliver sustainable operational value.
The Lizzy AI Platform and Safe AI Framework
Within the H&Z Group, H&Z.digital provides the technical foundation through the Lizzy AI Platform.
Lizzy enables secure and scalable enterprise AI with capabilities such as private model hosting, guided prompting, model selection, data protection, retrieval augmented generation, chatbot and agent creation and controlled deployment routines.
Our Safe AI Framework ensures that AI is introduced responsibly, ethically and in full accordance with regulatory and organisational standards. Together, these components create trust, speed and control in equal measure.
Explore Lizzy – Secure AI for BusinessACROSS FUNCTIONS AND INDUSTRIES
AI That Improves Performance and Reduces Effort
Applied AI strengthens decision making, automates repetitive tasks and enables faster, more transparent processes.
Typical areas of impact include procurement, supply chain, finance, operations and customer service.
Common benefits include
- faster and more confident decisions through predictive analytics
- automation of rule based and repetitive activities
- improved transparency with process intelligence
- higher quality and compliance
- scalable deployment through modular, secure AI architecture
Our Applied AI Service Portfolio
Our digital procurement offering covers the full journey from design to implementation and adoption. We ensure that organisations benefit not only from advanced technology, but also from harmonised processes and empowered people – fully aligned for long-term success.
Use Case Scoping & Priorisation
AI Operating Model & Strategy
We develop a structured framework for your AI initiatives based on your company’s internal strategy. We also establish role models, governance structures and a secure platform architecture.
Proof of Concept & MVPs
We translate your prioritized ideas into functional prototypes, test them in real application scenarios and validate the benefits, acceptance and feasibility together with the user teams.We translate your prioritized ideas into functional prototypes, test them in real application scenarios and validate the benefits, acceptance and feasibility together with the user teams.
Deployment & Integration
Our experts accompany the implementation, set up data pipelines and support the integration of the solutions into your existing IT and process landscape. As a result, you not only receive continuous improvements through new AI functions, but also company-specific process improvements.
Enablement & Change
Through target group-specific training, structured application aids and internal prompt guides as well as workshops, we promote acceptance and enable your teams to use AI independently, responsibly and confidently.
Lizzy AI Plattform & Safety
With the Lizzy Platform, customers get full privacy with SafeAI,chatbots and agents.. With Lizzy we show howa secure and scalable AI platformcan be provided – including model selection hub, guided prompting with suggestions & enhancement,, data classification, RAG components and custom agent development.
The digital Powerhouse
Accelerate your Digital Transformation
Drive your AI transformation with H&Z.digital by combining strategy, data and technology delivery to turn AI into measurable business impact. Built for speed and scale, our approach covers the full journey from identifying high value AI use cases and building the right data foundation to adoption, governance and ROI, all the way to enterprise rollout. Explore the full offering and career opportunities at H&Z.digital.
Empowering Client Success
We help organisations achieve meaningful improvements through AI adoption. Our work enables efficiency gains, better decision making, stronger governance and increased user acceptance. By combining strategy, technology and change support, we turn artificial intelligence into a sustainable source of competitive advantage.
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