{"id":377939,"date":"2020-02-28T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=377939"},"modified":"2020-02-28T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:54:15","slug":"microsofts-8-point-checklist-for-ai-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/377939\/microsofts-8-point-checklist-for-ai-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s 8-point checklist for AI implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI is one of the most valuable technologies a business can implement.<\/p>\n<p>It has the potential to save your business lots of money, streamline your operations, and offer superior insights and information about your business.<\/p>\n<p>However, AI is not simply a plug-and-play solution \u2013 relevant actors in your business need to be prepared and educated on AI if you hope to implement it and reap its various powerful rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has therefore released an AI 360 strategy, which includes 8 capabilities your business needs in order to develop advanced AI maturity, access the business benefits, and minimise the risks of the technology.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mea\/ai\/?OCID=AID2420741_OLA_23222077_255435248_121653419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Download the Microsoft AI 360 strategy here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">1. Advanced analytics<\/h3>\n<p>By having an advanced analytics platform, you can access and use data science skills and pair them with AI solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced analytics platforms will also enable you attract superior talent that is able to better utilise AI and reap its benefits.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">2. Data management<\/h3>\n<p>AI solutions rely heavily upon having appropriate and extensive data in order to operate efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have such a system, your AI solution will be unable to make qualified, accurate decisions as it will not have the information required to inform them.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it is crucial that your business develops the ability to capture, store, structure, label, access, and understand its data.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">3. Open culture<\/h3>\n<p>While the benefits of AI are extensive, many people are unwilling to embrace change and will resultantly prove to be obstacles between you and your AI-powered business goals.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that you nurture and maintain a work culture that is always looking to embrace new solutions that can improve business operations.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">4. AI leadership<\/h3>\n<p>Those who are in powerful leadership positions within your organisation need to be fully on-board with the needs and implications of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mea\/ai\/?OCID=AID2420741_OLA_23222077_255435248_121653419\"><strong>AI implementation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They need to plan business KPIs around the technology, and work to onboard the entire organisation into an AI-ready mentality.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">5. Emerging tech<\/h3>\n<p>The tech space is constantly evolving, and it is critical that your organisation is willing to embrace change.<\/p>\n<p>New solutions, applications, and platforms can provide improved and streamlined ways to improve your AI solutions. Your organisation needs to be willing to test and implement modern technologies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">6. Agile development<\/h3>\n<p>Your development team needs to work together in short cycles and iterative processes across your business.<\/p>\n<p>This will ensure that you can continually improve upon your AI solutions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">7. External alliance<\/h3>\n<p>While your internal team needs to be AI-ready, it is also important that you enter into valuable strategic partnerships with third-party solution providers to complement your business\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth engaging with business advisors to access the full technical capabilities and best practices of AI.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">8. Emotional Intelligence<\/h3>\n<p>It is crucial to apply behavioural science capabilities as part of AI solutions so that these tools can both understand and replicate human-like behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>These solutions need to address human needs, interact with technology, and must generally operate as \u201chumanly\u201d as possible.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Microsoft AI 360 strategy<\/h3>\n<p>The AI 360 strategy by Microsoft helps businesses develop a comprehensive AI plan.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has published a whitepaper outlining how businesses should prepare to implement their AI strategy, or where they can improve on their current system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mea\/ai\/?OCID=AID2420741_OLA_23222077_255435248_121653419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Download the whitepaper here.<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI 360-degree strategy by Microsoft helps businesses develop a comprehensive AI plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":377943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[8556,169],"class_list":["post-377939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-ai","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377951,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377939\/revisions\/377951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}