By Insight Editor / 6 Jun 2023 / Topics: Data and AI Generative AI
Many organizations are pursuing AI to achieve efficiency gains and growth goals. In this infographic, discover how forming a center of excellence can take your AI initiatives to the next level.
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Traditional approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI) focus on using data and algorithms to create business value — but you can optimize efforts and unlock additional value by building the right structure around your AI. An AI Center of Excellence (CoE) allows organizations to remove team silos and accelerate AI impact.
Once executive sponsorship is established, allowing for proper funding and support, a qualified team can be developed. To be successful, the AI CoE team needs to have the right players in order to accomplish their goals efficiently. These roles include:
This group of data and automation experts works to set requirements, generate the models that will be used to uncover insights and implement a CI/CD framework for efficient automation of important workload tasks.
In an AI CoE, FinOps plays the role of maintaining fiscal responsibility for the project. This person or group has visibility into the storage, cloud, platform and other aspects of the project that need resource allocation and cost containment.
These individuals are responsible for the platforms and interface the other two roles need to do their jobs efficiently. This development of platforms includes providing the necessary access, visibility and integrations that teams will need for smooth workflows.
Before the AI project gets underway, it’s important that a strong foundation is built to guide the process and team. During this stage, the team and/or leadership will determine standards and compliance, their data governance approach, ethical parameters and security precautions to implement. Additionally, organizations should analyze their current talent and expertise to determine if there will be personnel needs to establish a successful AI CoE.
With a common goal established, the organization can move to fill gaps on the team — whether it means hiring additional expert personnel and/or training individuals on the team to have the same project philosophy and CoE understanding.
Before fully implementing a new AI project, it’s important to develop and approve a PoC. This PoC will determine if the proposed model will deliver the desired insights and allow for testing before investing in additional resources.
Once the PoC has proved successful, the team can develop an MVP to validate the full rollout. The MVP should be the best and highest fidelity implementation of the AI with the lowest resource cost, to test its real-world application.
Once all previous stages have been completed, organizations can feel confident moving forward with the full rollout and management of their AI capabilities.
Whether you’re just getting started with AI or looking to optimize what you already have, Insight can help you maximize impact across the entire AI journey — from strategy to design, operationalization and beyond. We use proven and repeatable frameworks to accelerate speed to insight for your AI use cases.
