Thomas Rob, Zikopoulos Paul. The AI Ladder: Accelerate Your Journey to AI

O’Reilly Media, 2020. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-1-492-07343-7.AI may be the greatest opportunity of our time, with the potential to add nearly $16 trillion to the global economy over the next decade. But so far, adoption has been much slower than anticipated, or so headlines may lead you to believe. With this practical guide, business leaders will discover where they are in their AI journey and learn the steps necessary to successfully scale AI throughout their organization.Authors Rob Thomas and Paul Zikopoulos from IBM introduce C-suite executives and business professionals to the AI Ladder—a unified, prescriptive approach to help them understand and accelerate the AI journey. Complete with real-world examples and real-life experiences, this book explores AI drivers, value, and opportunity, as well as the adoption challenges organizations face.Understand why you can’t have AI without an information architecture (IA)
Appreciate how AI is as much a cultural change as it is a technological one
Collect data and make it simple and accessible, regardless of where it lives
Organize data to create a business-ready analytics foundation
Analyze data, and build and scale AI with trust and transparency
Infuse AI throughout your entire business and create intelligent workflows1. What in the AI? How Did We Get Here?
2. The Journey to AI
3. How to Overcome AI Failures and Challenges
4. The AI Ladder: A Path to Organizational Transformation
5. Modernize Your Information Architecture
6. Collect Your Data
7. Organize Your Data
8. Analyze Your Data
9. Infuse AI Throughout the Business
10. Tips and Best Practices on How to Get Started
11. The Future of AI