Artificial Intelligence First - Disruption Hub

Although materially beneficial corporate deployments of AI are beginning to proliferate, the AI activities of the majority still amount to a few isolated pilot projects conceived in an ad-hoc basis. Organisations without a clear AI strategy – and that's most – run the risk of falling behind as other better organised industry players move forward. That said, while individual AI solutions can be transformative within the scope of their application, that's not as clear-cut an argument for front-to-back change as, say, the digital transformation of a high street retailer. Developing an AI strategy requires an exercise of careful discrimination – acknowledging the present limitations of AI as well as its strengths in order to identify where one can, cannot, or even should not exploit it. This article is about the'what' of an AI strategy rather than the equally important'how'.