AI Strategy Foundation: Breaking it Down to the Basics

One question I used to hear a lot as a kid was this: "If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?" Yes, there were lots of bad trends in the 80s, and I may have fallen prey to more than a few of them. But that idea of blindly following a trend doesn't just apply to questionable hair and clothing choices. It also applies to every technology that pops up in digital transformation when building an AI strategy foundation. And one of the technologies getting adopted most blindly in today's marketplace: artificial intelligence (AI). I can hear it now: "But AI is the future! If we don't adopt it now, our company will fall behind!"