Get ready to plunge into the exciting world of AI in business and enterprise! This chapter uncovers the fundamental concepts, guidelines, and best practices to build or become an AI-driven organization. Whether it is for equipping your products, services, and projects with a touch of intelligence, or revolutionizing operational processes within your organization, by the end of this chapter, you will understand the essential elements to embrace this technology: from culture to data and infrastructure, to building teams of talented AI professionals. You'll also learn about challenges that may appear along the way and examples of success stories from big companies that learned to make AI a central aspect of their brand.
Exercise 1: Establishing an AI cultureExercise 2: Four ingredients to AI-driven organizationsExercise 3: Home, secured homeExercise 4: Data strategy, resources, and peopleExercise 5: Infrastructure dilemmasExercise 6: The "zen" of MLOpsExercise 7: Team building!Exercise 8: Is your deployed AI system successful?Exercise 9: Performance storiesExercise 10: An academic Proof-of-Concept (PoC)Exercise 11: Challenges and success storiesExercise 12: Ways to foster an AI cultureExercise 13: Paola and the fashion project