How to Create an Effective AI Strategy

To many leaders, it comes as a surprise to learn that the investment needed to develop AI solutions cannot realize a return through the deployment of single, disconnected use cases, or even a handful.1 This is why it's so important to have an AI strategy that is connected and coordinated across the enterprise, in tight alignment with the overarching business strategy. All too often, however, business leaders get the planning process out of order, focusing too much on use cases or abdicating leadership of the AI strategy to IT or data sciences. This can be a slippery slope, diminishing the organization's ability to use AI to create new ways of competing for customers, launching products, accelerating time-to-market, securing supply chains, and beyond. The strongest AI strategies tend to begin without ever mentioning AI.