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3 Things that Executives Should Consider While Approaching New Ideas for AI

By encouraging experimentation and innovation and assisting businesses in operating more effectively and efficiently, artificial intelligence offers a great deal of potential to boost the growth of digital companies. However, AI is not a magic wand. Many CEOs wonder why isn’t AI fulfilling everything that IT promised it would.

Ten years ago, we believed that instead of waiting to see how someone else navigated the unsettling new environment, you should launch AI ideas immediately, make mistakes, and learn. Now, though, we’re advising leaders to take their time and first determine whether an AI initiative will match the overall corporate plan or serve as the benchmark that establishes it. IT and business leaders must determine who is in charge, what they require, and how AI will set them up for a successful future.
When executives are presented with fresh AI concepts, they should consider the following three important questions. Leaders in data and analytics should be prepared to respond to these inquiries and, ideally, to provide the answers even before they are posed.

1. Who will fund this AI initiative and ensure that it matters to the company?

Success is far more likely when “a CxO” is provided as the response. C-suite executives have access to finance and power sources that could be vital. Leadership in the executive suite can take action when inescapable barriers to an AI project’s success, such as integration costs, employee availability, and security issues, appear.

Additionally, CxOs are adept at transforming the CEO’s goals for expansion or innovation into project relevance. We speak with IT executives who obviously want to explore AI initiatives that yield results, but outcomes alone are not always sufficient. The impact on the business areas that receive focus is how value is measured.

One client mentioned, for instance, that they classified millions of photographs using AI rather than people at year’s end. The IT team that automated this process did not receive the praise they deserved because it was not a duty that was of particular importance to the company.

2. Will this choice lead to improved knowledge, data, and direction?

Executives must request corporate-wide AI strategies. One can anticipate that more than one department will be committed to each initiative’s success as they have already said that every given project would be positioning the company for strategic impact. But that road to a more productive future must be visible to both corporate executives and employees.

AI requires commitments from business executives, IT leaders, and data leaders in terms of management and quality (staff impacts and value). Invest wisely in the potential of a story that interacts with others. When you care about Deep Space, you care about the Next Generation as well. The ideal interactions occur across timelines.

3. Do we actually need to employ AI for this?

This final query is challenging. When they wish to explore something familiar while using a new set of skills, some clients tell us they use AI. Some people use AI for simple jobs to attempt to get started. But no matter where a business is in its AI journey, it can still be difficult.
According to the Gartner AI in Organizations Survey, the typical AI initiative takes 7.3 months to reach production, and 10% of initiatives take at least a year (but no more than two years). Similarly, half of these activities are completed in under a year.

We advise leaders to at least consider the possibility of doing this without utilizing artificial intelligence. It’s time to start the project if the response is no and it is a strategic one.

The experimental attitude that AI needs should be viewed as even more crucial than usual if the project may be completed in a different method, as the response indicates. The project’s cost in terms of resources, the difficulty in having it approved, and any ongoing work you could anticipate should all be measured. Ensure AI is furthering the remainder of the organization’s story when it is optional.

IT leaders will not only have a better chance of success if they use these questions to structure and evaluate AI projects, but they will also be able to win over key internal and external stakeholders including employees, board members, and customers. To get the answers to some of these questions, research and data analysis may be necessary, but this planning will guarantee that only the greatest AI use cases are pursued, promoting a positive feedback loop of AI investment.

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