There are plenty of Artificial Intelligence efforts underway -- the global AI adoption rate grew steadily and now is 35%, a four-point increase from the year before, a recent IBM study shows. It's clear, as shown in the study, that there are tangible benefits -- half of organizations are seeing benefits from using AI to automate IT, business or network processes, including cost savings and efficiencies (54%), improvements in IT or network performance (53%), and better experiences for customers (48%). But bringing in AI means changes for the organization, and the systems and processes that have defined the way business is done. Selling AI as a new way requires some degree of finesse and business sense. Think and understand the problem to be addressed before bringing in the technology.

Convince the business, in terms they can understand. Imagine you have been selected as a proponent to bring artificial intelligence into your business. Are you going to talk to executives about algorithms, training data, test data, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and deep learning neural networks? Watch their eyes glaze over. There are plenty of AI efforts underway -- the global AI adoption rate grew steadily and now is 35%, a four-point increase from the year before, a recent IBM study shows.

Convince the business, in terms they can understand. There are plenty of artificial intelligence efforts underway -- the global AI adoption rate grew steadily and now is 35%, a four-point increase from the year before, a recent IBM study shows. It's clear, as shown in the study, that there are tangible benefits -- half of organizations are seeing benefits from using AI to automate IT, business or network processes, including cost savings and efficiencies (54%), improvements in IT or network performance (53%), and better experiences for customers (48%). But bringing in AI means changes for the organization, and the systems and processes that have defined the way business is done. Selling AI as a new way requires some degree of finesse and business sense.