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Your AI Strategy Roadmap (Introduction)
An agreed vision and strategy is essential for AI success.
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10 min read
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Jul 28
Source: Bing AI
Introduction
Ok, we have seen and helped to create the hype, trying to look cool by creating silly images and asking ChatGPT silly questions. We have read about the utopian future predicted by some AI ‘experts’; with others suggesting that the very survival of humanity is at risk.
Amid all the hype, it is now time for an AI reality check.
Avoid the Hype
Embedding AI into your organisation, leveraging its full potential for building future readiness, is no different from any other strategic initiative. A clear vision, strategy and action plan for ‘getting there’ are required.
Over the last decade or so, we have supported a diverse range of organisations accelerate their adoption of digital technologies. The Roadmap Framework we have used can be cascaded to cover the development and implementation of a robust AI strategy and action plan for your organisation.
A top-level overview of the Roadmap Framework is presented below. Follow-up articles will examine each step in more detail. Together, the combined posts will provide a comprehensive ‘online course’ delivering best-practice strategic and highly practical advice guiding your organisation’s journey into AI.
The Roadmap Framework is built around two top-level mindset prerequisites and eight key pillars of success.
The Right Mindset
The two key mindset prerequisites critical to AI success are ‘be radical’ and ‘avoid AI myopia’.
Be Radical
With AI heralding the greatest-ever transformational shift in human history, the legacy infrastructure, leadership, and management approaches underpinning most organisations today are no longer fit-for-purpose. In an era of pervasive uncertainty and digital disruption, tinkering is not an option. More radical, future-looking mindsets are required. Challenge the status quo by undertaking a scorched earth reassessment of every aspect of your organisation — the way we do things around here and why. This will provide a strong foundation for the successful use of AI to support…
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