Understand the importance of building an AI-ready culture

Understand the importance of building an AI-ready culture

Introduction-

Artificial Intelligence helps organizations transform digitally by creating new experiences infused with capabilities to make them smart, fast and helpful. To harness this potential, organizations must be ready to create, own and operate AI-based systems. A successful AI strategy must consider cultural issues as well as business ones. Becoming an AI-ready organization requires a fundamental transformation in how you do things, how employees relate to each other, what skills they have, and what processes and principles guide your behaviors.A successful AI strategy must consider cultural issues as well as business issues. Becoming an AI-ready organization requires a fundamental transformation in how you do things, how employees relate to each other, what skills they have, and what processes and principles guide your behaviors. This transformation goes to the core of an organization's culture, and it's vital for organizations to tackle such transformation with a holistic approach.

Fostering an AI-ready culture requires:

• Being a data-driven organization
• Empowering people to participate in the AI transformation, and creating an inclusive environment that allows cross-functional, multidisciplinary collaboration
• Creating a responsible approach to AI that addresses the challenging questions AI presents

Data-driven

The first step is to ensure that you have the best and most complete data, and that you can reason over your entire data estate. This is the foundation of any good AI system.Due to data ownership or storage issues, most organizations generate, organize, and use data in a siloed manner. While each department may have a good view of the data coming from their own processes, they may lack other information that could be relevant to their operations

Empowering and inclusive

Fostering an AI-ready culture means empowering people to be part of the AI transformation. Fundamental to empowerment is enablement: giving people the space, resources, security, and support to improve what they do with AI. Empowerment also requires allowing room for errors, encouraging experimentation and continuous improvement, helping people get the knowledge and the skills they need, and of course celebrating and acknowledging success.It also means creating an inclusive environment, one that is predicated on the willingness and ability of employees to work in cross-functional teams that cut across organizational boundaries.

Responsible

From our perspective, the third key element of an AI-ready culture is fostering a responsible approach to AI.