Scania, the storied maker of trucks and buses, is speeding up its adoption of artificial intelligence inside a global, highly technical organization. It doesn’t impose from the top; instead, it lets teams experiment and learn together, folding AI into their continuous improvement processes.

How Scania drives AI from within

Adoption began with a partnership with OpenAI and broad availability of ChatGPT Enterprise licenses for many teams. Rather than waiting for a central directive, Scania tapped into strong bottom-up demand: engineers and operational teams wanted to try new tools and see immediate results.

This wasn’t chaos: from day one they built practical governance. Legal and security acted as enablers, defining clear boundaries that allowed experimentation without paralyzing teams. The result? A rapid rollout that’s already delivering early gains in productivity and quality.

It's moving faster than we expected: both in speed and in quality.