Artificial intelligence center of excellence

The ideas are streaming in from your team and they sound incredible and everyone's intention to improve the organization, and the relationship with your customers is invigorating your organization. Inviting ideas is a best practice as is first creating your organization's AI Center of Excellence.  We will provide key insights to leadership on developing an AI Center of Excellence that integrates into your organization, is sustainable, produces a ROI, and creates Shareholder value.   

The number of AI vendors is becoming overwhelming as AI solutions offered are predominately stand-alone AI solutions that are focused an specific aspects of the business. We help you create a roadmap for success through strategic planning. We understand the starting point for AI is not the solution. Rather, the challenges, capital deployment and needs of today that the organization carried forward, and the competitive pressure is where we start. We will work with you to develop a comprehensive methodology that aligns your AI Center of Excellence and subsequent AI innitaives with your goals and objectives.

Multiple tiers of SaaS offerings, and levels of support from vendor's are available. Today, AWS is the leader, followed by Microsoft and several other provider tiers follow. Understanding these tiers, and the investment requirements and ROI, and combined with Risk factors and internal support requirements, start a new dialog with AI solution vendors. We provide financial and risk analysis and guidance to help you make informed business decisions. 

AI solution performance requires stringent testing before deployment. However, analysis of the proposed AI solution prior to build is essential. Understandinge the GAPS and elements of performance of the AI solution prior to any AI build provides key insights to the AI solution's performance.

Developing a competitive advantage by incorporating AI into your product suite provides leadership with an opportunity to explore line extensions and additional revenues. AI combined with trusted name brands not only reinforces your current customer's relationship, but also attracts new customers to your brand. 

Supporting an organization and customers requires team members to follow pre-planned business processes. Ensuring materials, labor and production capabilities align to schedules is a standard requirement. However, all organizations are challenged by existing processes and utilize implicit skills over explicit skills. This is where margin begins to erode. Let's assess your processes with AI and determine the best path forward. 

The AI vision is developed and the the key milestones and desired results have been outlined. Next, the AI Architecture is planned, and once completed, this is the stage to validate the planned results. Any GAPS are identified, and addrssed--without building the AI solution and increasing the odds for success.