Linked – AI data readiness: C-suite fantasy, big IT problem
I don’t know many people who haven’t run into this problem:
Business leaders believe their data is primed for AI, but IT practitioners spend hours every day beating data into shape, only to miss out on automation opportunities.
This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.
There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing data security internally. Now, they want to use AI, but the AI is accessing all that outdated data and exposing the places where security wasn’t correctly implemented. So, it becomes an IT problem to fix.
The article also points out another problem: data in legacy applications is not compatible with all these new AI tools.
We all know that when something becomes an IT problem, the solution should be immediate and magical. This isn’t magic. This is people working hard to ensure the AI is accessing the data the C-suite requires or risking an AI implementation that goes nowhere fast because it’s not providing any insightful and automated benefit.
It’s not an easy problem to solve. Still, as I mentioned a few weeks back on a webinar, this is the opportunity to finally solve this data problem by getting everyone to the table for an honest conversation.
https://www.cio.com/article/3622834/ai-data-readiness-c-suite-fantasy-big-it-problem.html
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