It's clear that AI could increase your business efficiency, and your organization depends on you to produce an actionable roadmap for the future of AI in your department. But first you must overcome these challenges:

While AI can add immeasurable value, it has thus far been proven to be unreliable, untrustworthy, and unverified.
There is a lack of available talent, and you don't know where and who to recruit, making implementation difficult.
Deficiencies in the completeness and validity of your data will limit AI's usefulness.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

There are untold numbers of AI initiatives already deployed. Seek out the evolving experience of your peers for early insights. By learning from their successes and challenges, you can navigate the AI landscape with greater confidence and make informed decisions for your future initiatives.

Impact and Result

Make a roadmap and identify key areas to consider for AI implementation.
Implement employee training to introduce AI into the company culture and establish the foundation for future success.
Develop awareness and metrics for monitoring AI adoption and challenges as the technology advances, vendor solutions materialize, and strategies mature.

Plan Your Early AI Moves: Training for Business Leaders Research & Tools

1. Plan Your Early AI Moves Storyboard – AI is ever evolving, and there is an absence of well-defined strategy. This training helps business leaders identify their AI implementation requirements.

Leverage the insights, network, and roadmap tool to kickstart your AI implementation journey.

2. Sample AI Action Plan – A streamlined tool for prioritizing, tracking, and visualizing action items during AI implementation.

Customize fields to include timelines, owners, progress, and effort. Capture action items and projects for formal planning. Leverage the tool's outputs to enhance AI project planning with steps, due dates, and work streams.

Plan Your Early AI Moves: Training for Business Leaders

Illuminate the path to Exponential IT.

The pressure to take action, safely

In the vast realm of innovation, AI stands as a beacon of possibility for many technology leaders. While we are aware of the excitement, few of us fully understand how to implement AI solutions.

Most business leaders know they should use AI to their advantage before they're left behind. However, it's too early to know the implications.

There is a sense of urgency, but fear of the unknown, lack of information about the possibilities, and confusion about the risks are holding business leaders back.

Info-Tech Insight

There is pressure to take action on AI before fully understanding its capabilities and its risks. Many organizations will find that their safest path forward is to learn diligently while appearing to do nothing.

Relax – it's going to be a wild ride, and we don't know how it's going to go. The secret lies in your ability to propel yourself forward in the face of this uncertainty.

Analyst Perspective

You need AI to accelerate your business, but first you must figure out how to use it to your advantage.

The emergence and rapid advancement of artificial intelligence caught many of us by surprise. It is evident that AI is not just a passing trend.

Organizations across various industries reacted swiftly to incorporate AI into their planning. They recognized the potential benefits and competitive advantages that AI can offer. However, despite the initial reaction, many organizations still lack an overarching strategy for artificial intelligence.

The absence of a well-defined strategy poses challenges for leaders. They are expected to act with insight and decisiveness when implementing AI initiatives, even though they may not have a clear action plan guiding them.

In such a dynamic and evolving landscape, it becomes crucial to accelerate the learning process and stay up to date with the rapidly changing opportunities and threats related to AI. This volatile business climate is forcing strategies to evolve in real time.

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Lavisha Dasani
Research Analyst, Special Projects
Info-Tech Research Group

Executive Summary

Your Challenge

As a business leader, you are managing complex processes in a resource-starved climate. The pace at which AI is booming makes keeping up increasingly challenging, although AI could increase your business efficiency.
Your organization is depending on you to produce a workable action plan for the future of AI in your department.
You feel compelled to act before having sufficient insights into the costs, benefits, and risks of AI.

Common Obstacles

There is a lack of available talent, and you don't know where and who to recruit. This makes resourcing a difficult task, and thus implementation difficult.
AI can add immeasurable value, but it has so far been proven to be unreliable, untrustworthy, and unverified.
Deficiencies in the completeness and validity of your data will produce AI limitations.

Info-Tech's Approach

Review Info-Tech’s AI Primer for Business Leaders.
Familiarize yourself with AI trends that are generating value.
Make an action plan and identify what’s needed to prepare for an AI future.

Info-Tech Insight

There is an unknown number of AI initiatives already deployed. Seek out the evolving experience of your peers for early insights. By learning from their successes and challenges, you will be able to navigate the AI landscape with greater confidence and make informed decisions for your future initiatives.

Project overview

Evaluate your organizational readiness to deep dive into the world of AI.

This project will cover the following sections and learning objectives:

Lessons From the AI Primer

Lessons From the AI Primer	Understand AI Trends	AI Readiness Assessment	Develop an AI Action Plan
Gain an understanding of AI and its potential applications within a business context. Understand the benefits of AI and be aware of the challenges and potential risks. Align your AI decisions with your responsible AI principles.	Explore typical AI uses. Understand emerging AI technologies. Identify early use cases that may contribute to organizational value.	Assess your organization’s readiness to move ahead with AI. Consider the influence of corporate governance, data, skill sets, and your operating model as you imagine gaining value from the emerging technology.	Develop an initial AI action plan. Include defining goals, objectives, and capabilities in your action plan. This will give your organization a strong foundation for AI implementation.

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