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The AI promises to make companies of all shapes and sizes more effective, more innovative and better prepared to deliver what their customers want.
However, he will also inevitably expose them to new dangers and risks.
In fact, the risks of implementing new technologies often evolve according to the potential for positive transformation – and with AI, this potential is enormous.
Here are some of the biggest errors that I think that companies will do this year when implemented to implement it:
1. Do not align the AI strategy with the commercial strategy
One of the errors I see many companies come to rush to adopt AI simply because they have been told that they should do it without understanding how it corresponds to their global goals.
This approach – putting technology before the commercial strategy – is probably the first engine of AI failure initiatives and – worse still – Disillusionment and completely abandonment of AI.
It is easy for us to enthron the media threshing around the AI that we rush and start spending money on tools, platforms and projects without aligning them with strategic objectives and priorities. This inevitably leads to fragmented initiatives which fail to provide significant results or a return on investment. To avoid this, always “starting with the strategy” – the implementation of a strategic plan which clearly shows how a project or an initiative will progress your organization towards the improvement of the measures and the strike of the targets which will define your success.
2. Underestimating the impact of AI on the workforce
The implementation of the AI is likely to signify significant and possibly frightening changes for people who make your business vibrate.
Although this does not mean that they all become redundant, this can mean that they must acquire new skills or adapt to new ways of working. The evaluation of skills and training or reskilling skills and possibilities, ensuring that there is a membership at all levels and concerns of the concerns that people may have concerning employment safety are all essential.
Many companies will make the mistake of thinking only of the technical stages they must take while forgetting that humans will ultimately be responsible for success or failure – and this is a serious error.
3. Abandon too quickly – or too slowly
All AI projects will not work – in fact, Gartner’s recent research puts the Current failure rate IA initiatives at around 85%. But being mistaken the first (or second or third) time is not necessarily a reason to abandon. I firmly believe that almost all companies can benefit from AI, but it is not the same as to believe that they will benefit immediately or that everything they have to do is launch an AI project and that they will succeed immediately.
On the other hand, being slow to draw the projects in traffic jams that do not work can also be a disaster recipe – potentially shooting which should simply be a short net lesson in a loss of time and long -term resources. There is a reason why “fail quickly” has become a mantra in technological circles. The projects must be designed so that their effectiveness can be quickly evaluated, and if they do not train, crush it to experiment and go to the next.
4. Do not correctly assess the cost
Like the previous trap, it is also two-component-it can be easy to overestimate and underestimate the cost of developing AI initiatives, and both can be problematic.
Make no mistake, go to AI is expensive – hardware, software, specialized advice expertise, resource calculation, reskilling and increasing a workforce and projects for scaling the pilot Production – None of this is cheap. The question of how much it costs to obtain an initiative of the corporate AI which has difficulty is similar to “how long lasts a piece of rope?” But most estimates go in millions.
At the same time, many small businesses will be postponed because they think that AI is only for large companies with enormous IT budgets, ignoring the fact that there are ways to implement the AI of Profitable way while offering real advantages.
Again, the answer is an in -depth preparation and being as precise and diligent as possible in your costs before skipping the first in the AI.
5. Leave the competition you pee to the publication
Of course, despite all the precautions covered here, the biggest error might be to decide that it is too difficult, risky and expensive and choose to sit entirely from the AI revolution.
Make no mistake: AI should transform each industry, and those who stick their heads into the sand and claim that this does not happen will be left behind.
The AI will make companies more effective, which means that those who do not implement them at all throw money effectively. But this will also stimulate innovation, which means that the competitors who adopt it will create new products and services, redefining customer expectations and leaving Laggards down the old hour.
Do not fall into these traps
I know by my work experience with companies of all forms and sizes on digital innovation strategies that these dangers and traps will bring many companies to suffer big problems in 2025.
Understanding the risks and having the foresight to see them before falling as a first head is the key to success, as well as the secret to offer growth and transformation led by AI.
By aligning AI projects on commercial objectives, ensuring that your employees are included in everything you do, by evaluating the costs with precision and knowing when to move forward and when to stop, you give yourself the best chances of ‘Avoid making these mistakes.
This will result in AI projects which offer better yields and, perhaps more importantly, to prepare your organization for even greater opportunities which are not yet to come.