January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 58m
English
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Chapter 8. The AI and Agentic Maturity Framework
The journey through the first seven chapters has equipped you with a technical blueprint for building and deploying AI and agentic systems. We’ve navigated the complexities of data readiness, orchestrated intelligent agent teams, and mastered the art of evaluation and tuning AI applications with robust operational processes for continuous integration, deployment, and retraining. The lessons learned by practitioners in these chapters—moving from a prototype to a production-ready system—form the essential foundation.
With the technical expertise you’ve gained, we can now shift our focus to the strategic evolution of AI within an enterprise, an endeavor that must be framed within local and global governance standards. This is the central purpose of this chapter: translating the hands-on knowledge you’ve gained thus far into a comprehensive AI and agentic maturity framework. This framework moves beyond purely technical and operational readiness to integrate the essential principles of trustworthy and compliant deployment, grounding them in the standards set by landmark legislation like the European Union’s AI Act.
The goal of this final chapter is to help you develop a forward-looking strategy that cultivates and maintains long-term AI fluency across your entire organization. This evolution will include critical behavioral and cultural shifts around AI integration into daily activities for productivity and efficiency, as well as shifts ...
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