Delivering lasting business impact using AI? Based on experience from AI projects across the globe, Huw Kwon, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at Cognizant, outlines five important steps to industrialize AI.
Recently, key players from the financial industry gathered at the Findig event in Norway. Huw Kwon was one of the speakers with a session about ”AI, from talking, walking to running” focusing on how to deliver real business benefits using AI.
He experiences that executives, independently of industry, are facing the same sort of challenges connected to AI projects. It’s about difficulties scaling up, getting any output from data modernization initiatives such as data lakes, and creating business value from AI use cases.
Typical failures include a lack of holistic approach; only tech people are involved instead of tech and business representatives, lack of understanding of AI’s impact; the belief on its potential is too exaggerated, competence issues, and a too strong focus on data only.
How do you make AI work like a pro then? Well, according to Huw Kwon there are five essential steps to make business impact that no successful AI project can skip:
How can you make all this happen? It might be hard to accomplish it all within your company walls. Cognizant offers a structured approach in so-called PODs, consisting of skilled, cross-functional teams with a strong focus on business outcomes. All phases in the project are measured to ensure progress and to uttermost make your AI project run.
To get a more in-depth view of these steps, watch this video with Huw Kwon’s session and have a look at our AI section of the web.
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