Is Your Company Ready For AI?

One of the biggest mistakes IT champions make when pitching trendy transformative technologies like AI, blockchain or quantum computing to executives is not doing their homework. They often fail to identify the problem they are trying to solve, determine whether it's worth solving and understand whether their company is positioned to solve it. This article proposes a simple four-part framework your champions can use to assess AI readiness so stakeholders can get a good early read on the likelihood of success before you invest too much time and effort in AI initiatives. To animate this framework, I will apply it to a real-world scenario -- assessing organizational readiness for AIOps, or the application of AI technology to transform IT operations. The framework comprises four elements.