Most organisations believe they have an AI strategy. They have a collection of experiments. These are not the same thing, and the confusion between the two is the primary cause of failure.
An AI strategy is a framework of explicit decisions on where AI creates value, which dependencies are acceptable, and how the organisation maintains control. A list of AI initiatives is not a strategy.
Many organisations confuse the two. The result: budgets committed, dependencies created, and no clear direction.
They are accumulations of initiatives. Experiments. Projects. In many organisations, the "AI strategy" is merely an a posteriori rationalisation of opportunistic decisions. An AI strategy is not defined by the number of initiatives. It is defined by the quality of decisions it enables.
Before contracts are signed. Before dependencies are installed. Before irreversibilities form. An AI strategy without a decision framework is not a strategy. It is a budget.
We distinguish the initiative list from the decision framework. Exclusively executive committees.
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