Enterprise AI in the Cloud

22Setting Up Your AI COE

Great things in business are never done by one person: they're done by a team of people.

—Steve Jobs

As you navigate your journey through enterprise AI transformation, you might realize that creating and deploying models into production is just one step of the larger journey toward becoming AI-first. For your company to fully transition into enterprise-wide AI, it needs a holistic approach to integrating AI into its core. And this holistic approach is the crux of this chapter.

This chapter delves into the compelling reasons to establish an AI Center of Excellence (AI COE), one of the three pillars to scale and transform your business with AI. You learn about its team structure, multifaceted roles, and the symbiotic relationship between the COE business and platform teams (see Figure 22.1).

FIGURE 22.1:  SCALE AND TRANSFORM: Set up your AI COE

The AI COE serves as an engine, propelling your organization through its transformation phases, and also acts as the AI evangelist to promote AI adoption. This chapter dives into how to evolve the AI COE's role from strategy to operations and its transition from being a central unit to an enterprise-wide advisor.

SCALING AI TO BECOME AN AI-FIRST COMPANY

Now that you have deployed the pilot in production, it is time for the team to explore expanding AI adoption across the enterprise by identifying more use ...