In this contributed article, Vrinda Khurjekar - Sr. Director - AMER Business - Searce, believes that companies struggling to improve operational processes need to adopt an AI-driven culture to survive. However, they shouldn’t rush. Instead, they must dedicate time in the design and planning phase to create holistic approaches that will stand the test of time.

Implementing AI across an organization requires a clear strategy, organizational flexibility, a data-driven environment and new forms of collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Amidst the great debate over if artificial intelligence (AI) will steal human tasks, there's been little discussion of how it may transform corporate cultures in new and unprecedented ways. In the era of automation, even the most prosperous companies will be those who redesign their operating environment and function around harnessing the cognitive capabilities of machines in precisely the identical manner that Victorian-era industry was redesigned around exploiting the physiological capabilities of steam along with mechanization. AI will demand a radical culture change as it alters the association between machines and people, changing machines out of passive receivers of orders into educated, sentient collaborators. In doing so, it will also alter the abilities that organizations attempt to locate and foster in human workers. Basically, AI will require individual work spaces to be constructed around powering processes, products and services with information in the exact same manner the Machine Age found society revolved around powering machines using electricity.

Amidst the great debate over whether artificial intelligence (AI) will steal human jobs, there has been little discussion of how it will transform corporate cultures in new and unprecedented ways. In the era of automation, the most successful businesses will be those that redesign their working environment and workforce around harnessing the cognitive capabilities of machines in the same way that Victorian-era industry was redesigned around harnessing the physical capabilities of steam and mechanization. AI will demand a radical culture shift because it alters the relationship between machines and humans, changing machines from passive receivers of commands into informed, sentient collaborators. In doing so, it will also transform the skills that organizations seek to find and foster in human workers. Fundamentally, AI will require human workspaces to be built around powering processes, products and services with data in the same way the Machine Age saw society reconfigured around powering machines with electricity.