Summary and Conclusion

AI and ML have the potential to transform a business through incremental improvements in decision making over a long-term strategy. Business leaders recognize this potential: 74% of adopters believe AI will be integrated into all enterprise applications.^xlix

Despite this enthusiasm, IDC estimates 50% to 85% of AI deployments fail. The problem is these companies apply AI in a pointed fashion rather than within the context of a decision system. To extract value from AI, companies need to incorporate the technology into a formal decision process and define one if it doesn’t exist already. DI ensures that the decision is a first-class citizen and AI is orchestrated to support that.^l