By enabling machines to perceive, learn from, abstract, and act on data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers are building machines that can perform tasks humans do—ideally better than we do them. As a result, organizations like yours are implementing AI to accomplish their missions and better serve their clients while enabling employees to work on more complex problems.
Have you been strategizing different ways AI can benefit your organization? Do your leaders agree that AI will move your organization ahead? This checklist will help you create a solid action plan:
What are your goals?
- Have you identified the value that you want to capture through the investment?
- Will you need to create a multiyear plan for evolving AI in the coming years, based on how it has impacted your industry thus far?
- Does your organization want to be a leader or fast follower regarding its AI approach?
How much risk are you willing to tolerate?
- What areas or datasets are required to implement or build a AI solution at your organization?
- Have you scaled out how you should apply AI?
- If you decide your original idea holds too much risk, what are some other AI options that you can start with?
What is the state of your data assets?
- Do you have all the data points necessary to implement AI?
- What partnerships are available to help maximize your AI effort?
- How can you alter your infrastructure to capture all the data you would require?
What AI talent assets do you have?
- What type of expertise do you need for specific projects?
- Should you look into academic organizations for AI talent by providing investment dollars?
- How can you upskill current staff to gain AI technical competencies over time?
What are your values?
- What questions and answers have you developed to address ethical concerns such as respect, transparency, privacy, and equitable treatment of people from disparate groups?
- How do they align with checks and balances in place to ensure data privacy?
- How will you transparently and authoritatively communicate your organization’s goals and values as they relate to AI?
