Preface

Many AI projects are in progress today, and many of them will fail. This book will help you avoid starting an AI project that’s doomed to failure and will guide you toward the projects that can succeed.

I wrote this book to help you get concrete business results, and to help you influence how AI is used in industry today. Current discussions about AI focus on algorithms and case studies of successful applications. What’s lost in this discussion is the human element of AI. We see algorithms, and we know what large organizations have done with them, but what we don’t hear about is the leadership needed for an AI project to achieve business success and the principles applicable to our own organizations for leading AI projects. That causes us to have unrealistic expectations of what AI can do, and when paired with only a vague understanding of the actions leaders must take for their AI projects to succeed, the result is that many of the AI projects we have in progress will fail.