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Common Costly Mistakes in AI Implementation - and How to Avoid Them!

Underestimating the resources required

Businesses often fail to involve the right stakeholders and underestimate the resources and expertise required to deploy AI initiatives.

This often leads to missed opportunities, misaligned projects, suboptimal outcomes, and poorly designed, inefficient systems.

  • Break down silos and ensure open collaboration across interdisciplinary teams, including Business Strategy, IT, Data, Operations, HR, and Legal

  • Involve all key stakeholders from the start, including subject matter experts, to identify and align requirements, manage expectations and drive collaboration

  • Build a team of skilled professionals with strong expertise in AI Strategy, AI Governance, Project Management, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Data & AI Engineering, enabling problem solving and planning for knowledge transfer

  • Get the right resources through available internal skilled staff, internal training or external hiring (which may include external Consultants or Vendors)

  • Realistically assess how AI will impact processes, workflows, and job roles

  • Allocate resources to support future project scaling, updates, and realignment

  • Build an AI Centre of Excellence to centralise expertise, set best practices, and drive innovation — especially valuable for complex or large-scale AI initiatives

How to avoid it:

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