A New Perspective on Enterprise AI

Do you know this place?

Most people would say they do not. But let us flip our perspective and see the same place from a different angle, okay?

How about now? Does this look more familiar? It’s the same location, seen from a different angle.

Perspective matters.

And it’s quite the same with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The thing is, just like in the Eiffel Tower example, there are two ways to look at AI. One way is to start with the technology, Generative AI or Gen AI, which is no doubt a marvel in itself. Many if not most organizations look at it from this perspective, however, when they try to apply it to a business problem, what they find is undecipherable, insurmountable, and just a tangled mess. That’s why over 80% of enterprise AI implementations don’t meet their objectives.

Look at these stats.

Way back in 2018, it was predicted that 85% of AI implementations would not meet their objectives.[1] Meanwhile, in 2024 another study found that the prediction was true for an estimated 80% of AI projects as compared to 40% for non-AI projects.[2]

So, how did the other 20% succeed? What did they do right?

There’s another way to look at AI, a way that works.

And that is to look at the business problem first.

You see, Gen AI is a great technology, but it wasn’t invented to solve business problems. So, when you see all the use case of AI today, it seems a lot like a solution looking for a problem, doesn’t it?

However, when you start with organizational issues and then look at AI as a means to solve them, everything suddenly falls into place.

At Zuci, we call this approach “Activation AI”—a name derived from the activation functions that are used to produce intelligent results—and it’s produced greater-than-expected results across 200+ projects. Ultimately, our aim is not to “implement AI” but to “solve problems using AI.”

If you’re interested in knowing more about Activation AI or how it could work for you, let’s talk.

#ActivationAI #AIthatWorks

Image credits:

1.????????? Udit Kapoor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

2.????????? Jad Limcaco on Unsplash

References:

1.????????? According to a study by Gartner.

2.????????? Based on research by Rand Corp.