What's the Best AI Strategy: Build, Buy, Partner Accenture

To help curb AI sprawl and make smarter decisions about implementation, organizations should devote more thought to defining the value they are hoping to get from implementing AI solutions. With AI, teams often lean first toward the build option, believing it gives them the most control over what will hopefully prove to be a competitive differentiator. More often than not, however, buy or partner makes more sense. Small businesses, for example, usually use APIs to access data from companies such as Visa on credit card transactions, data that can be used in AI solutions. If the needed data or expertise do not exist internally, companies need to determine who they can partner with to obtain them relatively quickly.