Artificial Intelligence for Business

APPENDIX BRoadmap Action Checklists

Step 1: Ideation

• ___ Start by building a culture of innovation in your organization. Ideas will come from the most unexpected places once this culture is set in place.
• ___ Form an innovation focus group consisting of top-level managers who have the authority to make sweeping changes.
• ___ Start maintaining an idea bank.
• ___ Gather ideas via scrutinizing standard operating procedures, process value analyses, and interviews.
• ___ Sort and filter the idea bank using well-defined criteria.
• ___ Do timely reviews to trim, refine, and implement ideas.
• ___ Learn about existing AI technologies to gain a realistic feel for their capabilities.
• ___ Apply the idea bank to the AI models learned in the previous step to find those ideas that are suitable for the implementation of AI.

Step 2: Defining the Project

• ___ Identify the idea to be implemented.
• ___ Identify all possible stakeholders for the system you want to build.
• ___ Select the appropriate method for making the project plan (design thinking, systems thinking, scenario planning, etc.).
• ___ Use design thinking (if applicable) to come up with persona(s) who will be using your system.
• ___ Define and prioritize measurable user stories that, when implemented, will provide user value.
• ___ Establish success criteria for the entire project.
• ___ Finalize the project plan and begin prototyping.

Step 3: Data Curation and Governance

• ___ Determine the possible internal and external datasets available ...