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Scaling AI
The Economist writer we cited in this white paper’s Background section concluded by asserting that “the most significant benefits from new forms of AI will come when firms entirely reorganize themselves around the new technology,” while cautioning that “gathering data is tiresome and running the best models expensive,” and pointing out that 40% of American small businesses report being uninterested in AI tools.
In time, though, most organizations will turn their attention from future readiness and establishing themselves with AI to focusing instead on scaling (and sustaining) their investment in AI and the data platform upon which it depends. Put another way, one-time consolidation and readiness of data combined with a few AI-driven workloads does not a future-ready organization make.
First, organizations must tune their technical capabilities to support the scaling of AI. Some of this will be directly relevant to AI itself, for example, employing AI Operations (AIOps - including Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) - to build, deploy, monitor, and maintain production models, incorporating rapid advances in the tech to your enterprise machine learning platform where you’ll land your workloads and operate them in your daily business.
First, organizations must tune their technical capabilities to support the scaling of AI. Some of this will be directly relevant to AI itself, for example, employing AI Operations (AIOps - including Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) - to build, deploy, monitor, and maintain production models, incorporating rapid advances in the tech to your enterprise machine learning platform where you’ll land your workloads and operate them in your daily business.
Second, there are human Digital Literacy considerations that should be thought about as you progress AI across the organization. There is a significant element of people-centric scaling and change management required here. In other words, the baking of AI into the way people work.
We’ll explore these and other dimensions in the pages that follow.