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1. Strategy & Business Alignment

Score 1 – 2: Emerging

Recommendations

  • Conduct workshops to define how AI can support business goals
  • Brainstorm practical, quick-win AI use cases that demonstrate clear value
  • Build a small pilot project and use success stories to secure funding and executive sponsorship

Score 3: Developing

Recommendations

  • Shift from AI pilots to a more structured, documented AI roadmap
  • Establish clear KPIs for each AI project
  • Create an AI governance body to align AI projects with strategic priorities

Score 4: Proficient

Recommendations

  • Ensure AI goals are well-articulated, and each initiative has a clear plan
  • Look for high impact, enterprise-wide AI projects
  • Continuously monitor AI’s financial and operational impact

Score 5: Leading

Recommendations

  • Make AI a standard consideration in all new initiatives and product planning
  • Explore cutting-edge AI to differentiate in the market
  • Encourage a fail-fast, learn-fast mentality, with AI powering growth

2. Data Readiness

Score 1 - 2: Emerging

Recommendations

  • Identify key data sources, integrate them to reduce silos and inconsistencies
  • Define ownership for critical data sets and draft privacy & compliance policies
  • Fix obvious data errors and establish processes for regular data cleansing

Score 3: Developing

Recommendations

  • Ensure data standards and policies are known and enforced
  • Provide self-service data tools or dashboards to key stakeholders
  • Introduce ETL/ELT tools and data integration platforms

Score 4: Proficient

Recommendations

  • Adopt cloud or hybrid data solutions that handle large volumes with high performance
  • Automate compliance checks, add metadata management, and implement data lineage tracking
  • Encourage cross-team data collaboration through formal processes and centralized data catalogs

Score 5: Leading

Recommendations

  • Ensure that your data ecosystem is highly integrated, secure, and in real-time
  • Use ML to automate data quality checks and anomaly detection
  • Consider next-level capabilities (e.g., data virtualization) to stay ahead

3. Talent & Skills

Score 1 - 2: Emerging

Recommendations

  • Bring on expert talent or partner with specialized vendors to fill skill gaps
  • Launch AI workshops for both technical and non-technical employees
  • Find individuals in each department who can advocate for AI adoption

Score 3: Developing

Recommendations

  • Offer skill development for both technical and business roles (AI literacy)
  • Tackle an initial AI project with a small team of business and technical staff
  • Define specific roles (e.g., AI engineer) and offer a clear progression

Score 4: Proficient

Recommendations

  • Provide AI education (e.g., internal academies) for your staff
  • Embed AI roles into business teams and vice versa to deepen synergies
  • Incentivize teams that successfully use AI to improve processes or outcomes

Score 5: Leading

Recommendations

  • Ensure everyone understands and contributes to AI initiatives
  • Build an AI CoE and offer competitive benefits to retain top talent
  • Sponsor AI conferences, contribute to AI communities, and publish research

4. Technology & Infrastructure

Score 1 - 2: Emerging

Recommendations

  • Identify gaps in compute, storage, and network capacity for AI experiments
  • Start with cost-effective cloud-based AI services for small pilots
  • Ensure at least basic cybersecurity measures are in place

Score 3: Developing

Recommendations

  • Invest in mid-level computing resources to handle complex AI workloads
  • Roll out ML libraries, pipeline orchestration tools and experiment tracking
  • Incorporate AI vulnerabilities into existing cybersecurity audits and policies

Score 4: Proficient

Recommendations

  • Implement end-to-end platforms that handle data ingestion, model development, deployment, and monitoring
  • Leverage GPU/TPU clusters or cloud services with auto-scaling for production-grade AI
  • Formal AI security reviews and real-time monitoring for threats targeting AI pipelines

Score 5: Leading

Recommendations

  • Use CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable AI deployments across the enterprise
  • Invest in specialized hardware for deep learning or large-scale AI
  • Integrate security frameworks tailored to protect AI models against attacks

5. AI Governance & Ethical AI

Score 1 - 2: Emerging

Recommendations

  • Do basic training on bias, fairness, and transparency in AI
  • Identify relevant data and AI regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and start assessing compliance needs
  • Periodically check model outputs for errors or biases

Score 3: Developing

Recommendations

  • Draft guidelines on fairness, data privacy, and appropriate model use
  • Use frameworks/external tools to interpret model decisions for stakeholders
  • Form a small committee to evaluate AI risks and model performance

Score 4: Proficient

Recommendations

  • Define governance processes, roles, and responsibilities around AI ethics
  • Encourage model interpretability techniques in critical systems
  • Implement real-time tools to detect anomalies or drift and alert teams

Score 5: Leading

Recommendations

  • Ensure ethical considerations are integral to data collection, model design, deployment, and user feedback
  • Maintain version control, model documentation, and robust logging for compliance and transparency
  • Publish best practices, collaborate with industry groups, and help shape future AI regulations

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