AI for People and Business

Chapter 14. An AI Strategy Example

Now that we’ve covered information and considerations necessary for creating an AI strategy in detail, let’s create one using a hypothetical example. Recall that an AI strategy guided by AIPB should take the form of a solution strategy and prioritized roadmap.

Podcast Example Introduction

Let’s assume that I want to build a simple, podcast listening app that allows users to get podcast recommendations based on their preferences and past listening history. Users with unpaid accounts will be shown ads, whereas users with paid accounts will not see ads. Stakeholder-wise, I represent the business because it’s my company and app, the users are those who use the app to find and listen to podcasts, and the customers are the companies that use my app for advertising to unpaid users.

All three (business, users, customers) can have many goals for the app, and each goal could have multiple initiatives that can help achieve them. Let’s assume an AI vision exists for which this strategy is based, that defines the why, how, and what, as previously discussed. (I cover this example in greater depth in Appendix B, so we leave the vision aspect as is in this chapter in order to focus on AI strategy development.)

AIPB Strategy Phase Recap

Before diving into our discussion and development of a solution strategy and prioritized roadmap for our example, recall from Part I that all expert categories are recommended for developing an AIPB strategy. This is because ...