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HIGHLIGHTS
- Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) is the new normal. Today, it is an enterprise-wide priority to use AI to make a company’s offerings more relevant.
- Understanding AI is a business imperative and embedding it into business processes, operations, and decision-making will be a natural extension.
- Enterprises’ existing and future business landscapes must leverage AI for internal and external processes to enhance data interpretation and provide superior customer experience.
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Overview
In today’s evolving business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to stay competitive and innovative.
Business transformation, driven by technological advancements, has become a critical strategy for achieving these goals. Among the most impactful technologies are AI and generative AI (GenAI), which offer tremendous opportunities to enhance efficiency, improve customer experience, and drive innovations. So, let’s explore how businesses can effectively integrate AI and GenAI into their transformation efforts.
AI Transformation
Effective business transformation demands understanding data, optimized business processes, and deep insight into customer demand.
Data analysis and insights
A popular business maxim today is “your AI is only as good as your data.” Computer scientist Peter Norvig expanded on that by adding “more data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.”
AI excels at analyzing a large volume of data to uncover patterns and insights that might be missed by human analysts. Predictive analytics uses historical data to forecast future trends and aid in strategy planning and decision-making. Real-time analytics, powered by AI, provides immediate insights, allowing businesses to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs.
Business efficiency
AI can also help optimize business operations in areas like machine and plant maintenance, supply chain management, vendor management, cashflow, and others. Predictive maintenance, powered by AI, can monitor equipment and predict failures before they occur, minimizing downtime and extending lifespan of assets. Implementing an AI-based strategy for predictive analysis for sales forecasting, collection, and cash flow helps to forecast future outcomes and provides an example of AI leveraging statistical model and machine learning.
Process automation
One of the most significant benefits of AI is its ability to automate manual, time-consuming repetitive processes. It helps alleviate boring, error-prone, and time-killing tasks, easing frustration for employees. Identifying those processes and leveraging AI’s capability to automate processes helps employees channel quality hours in their freed-up schedule into new innovative strategic activities. AI can help to manage more complex decision-making, which then helps directly to enhance operational efficiency.
Customer experience
There are two important ways organizations harvest their data. First, data gathered to enable business applications and second, data generated by customer interaction. Both datasets hold valuable information. As part of business transformation, evaluating these data using AI can help businesses reexamine the way products are offered, and services are provided to the customer. Identifying a greater number of specific issues eventually leads organizations to improve sourcing, operation processes, and the quality of product and services. AI is good at pattern identification, building quick snapshots view, and managing large non-linear dependencies helps build a multi-dimensional view of data. Enabling these powerful insights helps you build an effective user interface, smart AI-driven chatbot support, on-demand demos, and video instruction for critical stages of product installation which can further enhance customer experience and expectation.
GenAI Transformation
Leveraging GenAI to manage information and content-intensive processes can lead to remarkable business transformations.
Innovation and design
GenAI is a combination of science and art. It’s a fluid mesomerism, and continuously evolving field. Channeling GenAI in the right direction can be a powerful tool for business innovation and product development. It helps to build new prototypes, accelerate development process, and foster creativity. Businesses can leverage GenAI for quick simulation, new approaches for complex problems, and to drive continuous improvement. In areas and industries as varied as product design, clothing, fashion, retail, social platforms, accessories, automobiles, and infotainment GenAI can be leveraged for new content to stay ahead of the competition. Integrating your business with key data helps to build your next generation of product offerings.
Content creation
GenAI’s enabled content will revolutionize business. Businesses can leverage GenAI for marketing and advertising and keep their branding standard and user interaction intact.
Some of the key benefits include:
- Personalized messages
- Social media posts
- Messages for a targeted audience
- Tailored e-commerce experience
- Customer-specific, long-term engagement on various channels
- Enhanced shopping experiences
GenAI can also be leveraged for internal business processes for contract creation, RFP/RFI responses, meeting notes and action items, and follow-up schedules are additional benefits to improve internal business processes to enhance employee experience as well as customer experience.
Training and development
For external and internal training and development GenAI can create interactive and personalized training programs. These programs can help to address individual learning style and needs. In addition, GenAI can generate and update documentation, manuals, and FAQs, ensuing access to the latest information and resources.
Approach
Integrating meticulous transformation processes, teamwork, and AI is a balancing act for sustainable success.
Ensure data quality
As we mentioned earlier, the success of AI is based on the quality of your data. Data accuracy, completeness, and relevance are key factors for business to focus on. Implementing data governance frameworks, validation processes, cleansing mechanisms, and enriching and continuously monitoring data quality helps to build good quality data, which builds effective AI and GenAI models.
Understand the application landscape
Most available application providers support AI-enabled solutions. Knowing what type of tools and techniques are supported can help to determine which AI and GenAI models and platforms are required. Where there are homegrown solutions which involve specific open-source code, the applications need to be double checked. Any implemented third-party models will also require additional due diligence to check for data security, appropriate access control, adequate resource expertise, and accurate pricing models.
Start with a prototype
Once you know your landscape and required technologies, it is important to start with a small pilot program. A small pilot program will allow you to test your technologies, potential challenges, and integration efforts. It is very important to refine your strategies and, of course, estimate your budget correctly before scaling up. Pilot projects provide valuable insights to validate the effectiveness of AI and GenAI. Comparing your outcomes with outcomes from traditional approaches will also help to build a strong business case for broader implementation.
Engage everyone
AI is for everyone and not just for a certain set of people or departments. Including AI as a part of business transformation processes and educating every employee on AI, helps create a level playing field. Developing the right set of ideas and concerns helps enable better business transformation governance. Well-informed business and IT teams can collaborate to provide business know-how and technical expertise to address business needs. Good alignment of business goals with IT expertise can deliver tangible value.
Learning and sharing
The field of AI is constantly evolving, with new advancements and applications emerging regularly. It is very important to stay updated and continuously fine tune your AI strategies. Helping your employees to understand the new AI landscape creates an opportunity for your employees to learn from hands-on activities and nurtures an innovation and experimentation culture that can lead to better and more strategic investments.
The way forward
AI and GenAI will continuously evolve.
Integrating these new innovations into your next business transformation can drive innovation, improve efficiency, and enhance customer experience. By implementing these technologies, business can stay competitive and achieve long-term success.
Business must also recognize that the world is facing a new age of unabating transformation, driven by emerging technologies and AI-based use cases. To thrive in this environment, businesses must adapt and turn disruptions into advantages.
New AI and GenAI strategies must be leveraged for an organization to become a “perpetually adaptive enterprise” where rapid innovation, continuous workforce learning, and a change-embracing culture create opportunity and growth.
