Client profile
A global enterprise-software leader responding to pressure on traditional business models and a worldwide shift towards AI and cloud. Its China organisation needed to rebuild product, advisory and delivery capability for the next stage of growth.
Business challenge
Established operating paths and a measured culture created new demands as AI accelerated the pace of change. Candidates needed deep technology and enterprise-software expertise, the ability to explain AI value to customers, and the resilience to deliver quickly under pressure. Finding all four dimensions in one profile made the available market exceptionally narrow.
What we delivered
TAC translated the business transformation into three capability groups: technology leadership, AI Advisory and deployment delivery. The team then mapped more than 200 AI companies across Beijing and Shanghai. Senior client leaders joined critical interviews while TAC managed motivation, assessment evidence, feedback and offer risk, reducing the interview-to-offer cycle to two weeks.
Delivery method
Align business outcomes
Clarify growth, market-entry or delivery objectives before translating them into organisation and role priorities.
Map the talent market
Build target-company and candidate maps by sector, technology, location and talent movement to test actual supply.
Target and assess
Run confidential outreach around real business scenarios, assessing expertise, communication and organisation fit together.
Accelerate decisions
Shorten feedback and decision paths while coordinating interviews, offers and post-join role integration.
Key outcomes
Delivery outcome
Within 60 days TAC delivered ten critical hires: one Technology Director, five AI Advisory professionals and four deployment specialists. The team connected technical direction, customer value communication and implementation, creating the talent backbone needed to turn AI strategy into client delivery in China.
Organisation impact
This was not simply a recruitment project. Business Transformation defined the new capability requirement; Talent Transformation rebuilt the critical talent mix; and the result became Organization Transformation.