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White paper: Crafting your future-ready enterprise AI strategy
“What should our AI strategy look like?”.
Andrew Welch mused in his 2023 essay, Strategic thinking for the Microsoft Cloud, “I really wonder how many will miss out on the AI wave because they lack the wisdom or the willpower to make the most of it.”
Or, as he continues to remind the CIOs with whom I work closely, the grace period for organizations to get their act together and position themselves for the next wave is growing much shorter, the margin for error much narrower.
This white paper explores foundational concepts for AI tech and your AI strategy, five pillars for building an effective enterprise AI strategy (Data Consolidation, Data Readiness, Incremental AI, Differential AI, and Scaling AI), and trends that are likely to shape AI in organizations going forward.
Let’s consider a model for how organizations should be prioritizing their work and investments in the Microsoft Cloud. The imperative here could not be greater. Technological advancements are now moving on timelines that in some instances can be measured in weeks. Not months. Not years. But weeks. This both accelerates and is accelerated by the shift to system-based value. In other words, getting the platform ecosystem right in an organization is both necessary to creating the greatest likelihood that the organization can absorb rapid innovation, whilst simultaneously creating the conditions that drive that rapid innovation forward. But too many organizations have misallocated their focus up and down the value chain, prioritizing workload implementation either at the expense of or out of ignorance to architecting strategic foundations, building the platform ecosystem, and creating the conditions for success. That’s a bit esoteric, so let’s visualize this phenomenon as the “strategic pyramid”…