AI data strategy crucial for faster return on investments: IBM exec

IBM India's AI head says most Gen AI projects fail due to weak data foundations and suggests a phased approach to unlock RoI within 18-24 months

IBM is bullish about enterprises seeing a comprehensive return on their artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (Gen AI) investments in 18-24 months if they adopt a proper data strategy.

 

Streamlining enterprise data, having an AI policy, reskilling people, and cultural transformation have been cited by experts as key tenets to be an AI-first organisation. All these involve a huge amount of heavy lifting, and that’s why Gen AI adoption continues to lag market expectations. AI is only as good as the data it is trained on.

 

“You have to find the right use case, the right model, and your