A joint survey from KPMG and HFS Research shows that just onefifth of organizations have created integrated IT and business leadership teams to grapple with IA strategy and deployment.
The motivation is there; the money is there. But the optimism and aspiration to scale as fast as possible is at odds with the reality of executing IA effectively across the breadth of the enterprise.
Only 17% of 600 executives surveyed say they have scaled their efforts around IA.
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What does Whole-Brained Mean?
It’s the blend of different talents and ways of thinking—leftbrained and right brained—into centers of excellence with perspectives and expertise that will create the right business rationalization, measurement, and incentive systems for scale of intelligent automation. It’s melding business and IT into one team with a 360° vision.
The Csuite needs to lead the way and make bold decisions on scaling functions across business units—and organizations must have the right in house talent to develop and benefit from the transformation.
According to Brad Fisher, Global Leader, KPMG Lighthouse, Center of Excellence for Data, Analytics, and AI, skills that are not prominent in the corporate world—linguists, for example, and psychologists and an assortment of rightbrained people with humanities and liberal arts training—are already arriving across business units and different levels. Many of the new roles will be focused on managing AI and automation.
The top five AI jobs that companies need if they are to effectively build and scale their capabilities:
AI architect
The AI visionary
Measures and sustains performance of evolving models
Focuses on optimizing the role of humans in an increasingly automated world
AI project manager
Ensures that disparate teams are aligned around strategic goals
Monitors solutions to be sure they are successfully implemented
Works with teams to help optimize human-machine interactions
AI ethicist
The chief trust officer
Leverages technology to be built as unbiased forces for good
Focuses on transparency and explainability across departments
Data scientist
Data cleaning experts
Designs and applies the appropriate algorithms
Gleans meaningful insights from data
Software engineer
Takes AI from pilot phase to scalable deployment
Brings AI into production
Blends business acumen with a deep understanding of how AI works
Many businesses struggling to move beyond experimentation with AI haven’t planned for the people and the change elements these technology disruptions bring. They’re obsessed with the technology itself, and they forget that the only way they will realize benefits is by focusing on the people. It’s all about the people.
-Brad Fisher, Global Leader, KPMG Lighthouse, Center of Excellence for Data, Analytics, and AI
Build a critical mass of skills
Successful transformation can’t happen without ideas that have the space to percolate. Businesses need a melting pot of minds and the technologies to go with it. The left-brained and the right-brained talent in both business and IT will inspire and realize the strategy set in place by C-level leaders---and they’ll spin off disruptive ideas.
With the right skillsets in place, scaled across business functions, talent and tech will feed off each other across different areas of the business.
