Companies small and large are initiating AI projects, investing vast sums of money on software, developers, and data scientists. Too often, these AI projects focus on technology at the expense of actionable or tangible business results, resulting in scattershot results and wasted investment. Succeeding with AI sets out a blueprint for AI projects to ensure they are predictable, successful, and profitable. It’s filled with practical techniques for running data science programs that ensure they’re cost effective and focused on the right business goals. See the books contents on our browser-based liveBook reader: https://livebook.manning.com/book/succeeding-with-ai/

1. How To Manage a
Successful AI Project
From Succeeding with AI by Veljko Krunic
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2. Thesis of the book
• Technical knowledge regarding AI algorithms isn’t sufficient to get business
results using AI.
• The fastest way to fail with AI is for the executive and business leaders to
think, “AI can solve our problems; we don’t need to do anything except hire
the right tech geeks and unleash them on our data.”
• Or, for the whole data science team to think “business people take care of
the business; we focus on technology.” Business and technology must work
together for success.

3. How is Money Made
• What you may have heard is
• Data + AI = $
• If $ stands for cost, this is completely true. AI systems (and people operating
them) would come with a significant cost attached.
• However, if you want $ to stand for profit, the equation looks different:
• Data + AI + CLUE = Profit

4. What is CLUE?
• CLUE is an acronym for
• Consider (available business actions)
• What business actions are possible for you to take?
• Link (research questions and business problems)
• Can you achieve your goals better/faster using AI? If so, How?
• Understand (the answer)
• How will you know what the technical solution means in a business context?
• Economize (resources)
• Maximize your efforts so you don’t just end up burning $

5. How to Apply CLUE
for the best results CONCENTRATE ON
AVOID OVERFOCUS ON
Infrastructure
Volume of
Data
Algorithms
Define
Possible
Business
Actions
Formulate
Research
Questions to
Answer
Triage Projects
by Difficulty
Formulate
Business
Metrics
Initiate
Individual
Projects
Initiate
Individual
Projects
Initiate
Individual
Projects
Initiate and
Run Individual
Projects
C LUE

6. Start with “What Can I do?”
• There is always something in the data!
• “That is interesting… but what can I do with that info?”
• Most of the time, you can’t act on random insight!
• The number of good, effective actions you can take to affect the physical world is
relatively small!
• There will be many analyses you can perform that yield results that are not actionable
• Therefore, always start an AI project by asking “what business actions are
possible?”

7. Concentrate on the System, not on AI
Algorithms
• Every system is different
• So is the answer to the question, “What part of the system should I improve next?”
• Therefore
• Analyze your ML pipeline!
• MinMax analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Think about the reasons behind each step you are taking!!!

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