Enterprise AI in the Cloud

21Using the AI Maturity Framework to Transform Your Business

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday's logic.

—Peter Drucker

Having laid the foundation blocks for integrating AI into your business workflows, you will now venture into a pivotal phase: scaling and transforming your business through AI.

This chapter signifies a transformative shift from merely deploying AI systems to aspiring to become a genuinely AI-first company. But then, how do you know you are ready to make the transition? Enter the AI Maturity Framework (see Figure 21.1).

FIGURE 21.1: SCALE AND TRANSFORM: Use the AI Maturity Framework to transform your business

As you navigate this chapter, you will find the AI Maturity Framework to be an indispensable tool. This chapter walks you through the five stages of maturity, starting with the initial discovery, then pilot, operationalization, scaling, and culminating at the Transforming stage, where AI is not an addition but is core to your business strategy and operations.

TIP Understanding your company's vision and goals so you can conduct a maturity assessment helps identify gaps and enables you to create an AI transformation plan. This, in turn helps you move from pilot to production and makes AI a core part of your business strategy.

This chapter focuses on leveraging the AI Maturity Framework, ...