
10-step AI enablement model

7 | Tooling & Partners
CHOOSING THE RIGH AI SOLUTION ROUTE - BUILD VS BUY - ENSURING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ANAD VENDOR SELECTION IS GOVERNED
With the AI landscape changing rapidly, businesses need to choose tools that align with long-term business goals, rather than getting caught up in short-term hype.
The availability of AI in every day life will encourage your teams to experiment and even buy, but the wrong partner can lead to security and trust issues, and the wrong solution can be costly.
Initial investments can be as little 5-10k for a chat bot for a small business, but large organisations could be looking at license costs of up to 100k, and substantial implementation and support costs
We recommend setting up an AI Centre for Innovation - a cross functional team that can control who you work with, and what products are being developed & introduced. They will govern the Buy vs Build decisions, balancing cost, speed, IP ownership, competitive differentiation, and risk exposure.
They can also ensure that when great products are introduced everyone in your org knows how to benefit from them, helping you to encourage adoption and start to scale effectively. Their role is to enable safe, cost effective innovation through AI, and to demonstrate moments of value and impact from AI pilots that will encourage innovation and adoption.
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