Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that can create new content or data from scratch, such as images, text, music, code, and more. It has the potential to transform various industries and domains, such as marketing, entertainment, education, healthcare, and more. But how can you leverage generative AI for your organization?
Here are six steps to help you build your generative AI roadmap, based on the framework from Info-Tech and AI experience of BearingPoint:
- Align AI & Organizational Strategy: Before you start exploring generative AI, you need to have a clear vision of how AI aligns with your organizational goals and values. What are the problems or opportunities that you want to address with AI? How can generative AI enhance your products, services, processes, or customer experiences? How can you measure the impact and value of generative AI for your organization?
- Establish Responsible AI Guiding Principles: Generative AI poses unique ethical and social challenges, such as data privacy, bias, authenticity, and accountability. You need to establish responsible AI guiding principles that reflect your organizational culture and values, and that adhere to the relevant laws and regulations. These principles should guide your generative AI initiatives and help you mitigate the risks and ensure the trustworthiness of your generative AI outputs.
- Assess AI Maturity: To implement generative AI successfully, you need to assess your current AI maturity level and identify the gaps and areas for improvement. You can use the AI maturity model from BearingPoint to evaluate your AI capabilities across four dimensions: data, technology, people, and governance. You can also benchmark your AI maturity against your peers and competitors, and learn from their best practices and challenges.
- Prioritize Opportunities: Based on your AI maturity assessment, you can identify and prioritize the generative AI opportunities that align with your organizational strategy and responsible AI principles. You can use the AI opportunity canvas from BearingPoint to evaluate each opportunity based on its feasibility, desirability, viability, and alignment. You can also involve your stakeholders and customers in the ideation and validation process, and solicit their feedback and input.
- Develop Policies to Direct AI Usage: To ensure the responsible and effective use of generative AI, you need to develop policies and guidelines that direct your generative AI usage. These policies should cover aspects such as data collection and management, model development and deployment, output generation and distribution, quality assurance and monitoring, and user feedback and engagement. You should also communicate and educate your users and customers about your generative AI policies and expectations, and provide them with the necessary support and resources.
- Build Your Tactical Roadmap: Finally, you need to build your tactical roadmap that outlines the specific actions and steps that you need to take to implement your generative AI initiatives. You can use the AI roadmap template from BearingPoint to plan your generative AI projects, activities, resources, timelines, and deliverables. You should also define your success metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that will help you track and measure your generative AI outcomes and impact.
One of the platforms that can help you accelerate your generative AI journey is Microsoft’s AI platform, which offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services for building, deploying, and managing generative AI applications. Microsoft’s AI platform supports various generative AI techniques, such as deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, speech synthesis, and more. It also integrates with Microsoft’s personal productivity and security solutions, such as Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows, to provide you with a seamless and secure generative AI experience. If you want to learn more about Microsoft’s AI platform and how it can help you build your generative AI roadmap, you can contact experts of the BearingPoint Microsoft Practice.
Generative AI is a powerful and exciting technology that can unlock new possibilities and opportunities for your organization. But it also requires careful planning and preparation to ensure its responsible and effective use. By following these six steps, you can build your generative AI roadmap and start your generative AI journey with confidence and clarity. Don’t wait any longer, start your generative AI roadmap today!
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