Getting Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence: 6 Ways Executives Can Start

Invest in an initial immersion into AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, and their implications for business -- offered as a separate training or tutorial. You need to take a deep dive into best practices and benchmarks in your industry: what is possible now, what will be possible, what are direct and indirect competitors doing, and what are other industries doing that could translate to your business to give you a leg up? Assure you have the right talent on board, across the board. Even in an extremely tight market for AI expertise, leaders need to be asking whether they have the right talent in their organization to make it all happen – because vision and strategy may come from the highest levels of the organization and board, while innovation and implementation will need to be widespread across the organization. Assure your efforts are not caught up in silos: AI adoption and projects need to be cross-functional, across leadership levels, collaborative, and informed. They require a synthesis of AI expertise, domain knowledge, business acumen, and corporate strategy and vision.