AI-Empowered Business: Five Foundational Elements

Successful artificial intelligence (AI) implementations rarely hinge on the unique innovation of a specific algorithm or data science technique. Those are important factors, but even more foundational to successful AI enablement are the core data operations and enabling platforms. These act as the fuel and chassis of the AI machine that a business must build and evolve for continued competitive advantage. Successful digital transformations focus on evolving and optimizing business operations through the better use of data assets combined with modern technologies such as machine learning (ML), AI, and robotics. These paradigm shifts result in the creation of new operating patterns rather than simply more efficient legacy operations. In this way, digital transformation represents enterprise operations in the way the business wants to be run, rather than the way it has been running due to technical and operational limitations and barriers constraining it.