Understand your AI readiness

Is your organization AI ready?
See how our assessment can guide your AI journey.

Understand your AI readiness

AI is far from new, but now it's driving change that will impact how the global economy and the people who fuel it live and work. Like the Industrial Revolution, the advent of the internet, and the mobile phone, AI will bring increased innovation, connectivity, productivity, and opportunity. But are organizations ready for the risks and impacts, both technological and cultural, it poses?

Find out if your organization is ready.

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See how other organizations stack up

Cisco evaluated about 8,000 businesses spanning 30 global markets to measure AI readiness across key pillars: Strategy, Infrastructure, Data, Talent, Governance, and Culture. The Cisco AI Readiness Index categorized organizations into the following levels:

13% Pacesetters (fully prepared)
33% Chasers (moderately prepared)
51% Followers (limited preparedness)
3% Laggards (unprepared)

Pacesetters

Congratulations! You’re in the top 13% of global organizations who are feeling prepared and ready to tackle AI. You scored an 86 or higher on the Cisco AI Readiness Assessment. You’re hitting the ground running and taking the necessary steps to adopt, deploy, and leverage AI across your business. Here are some helpful tips to keep you on the fast-track and maintain your competitive edge.

Steps to build upon your success:

Monitor network usage and performance to ensure AI workloads are supported and you can keep scaling to meet additional demands.
Test AI algorithms consistently to eliminate bias and potential ethical concerns.
Nurture your talent and continue to upskill employees to further develop a culture that embraces AI and minimizes fear.
Keep security top of mind to protect data and ensure responsible AI usage.

Chasers

Congratulations, you’re on the right path! You’ve started your AI journey and feel moderately prepared to adopt this technology to benefit your business. Cisco can help you build a scalable architecture that supports the additional demands of AI workloads, and delivers a reliable, secure, experience for your users.

Steps to build upon your success:

Understand the current AI IQ of your employees.
Know your data. Centralize fragmented data and keep security top of mind to reduce risk.
Document how you continue to build and support ethical and responsible AI usage — ensuring accuracy, privacy, and security of data.
Monitor network usage and performance to ensure it can support AI workloads and scale to meet new demands.
Test your AI algorithms to ensure they are free from bias and align with responsible AI practices.

Followers

Deep breath. Not every company is fully equipped to adopt AI — yet. But with the right approach, you’ll be ready in no time. Being AI-ready requires much more than technology. You need to ensure you have an agreed upon strategy, goals, data hygiene practices, and the talent and culture to support your plans. By addressing these key elements, you can integrate AI successfully into your organization.

Steps to help you build success:

Identify storage, data processing, and network capacity needs.
Ensure the network capacity can handle additional AI workloads.
Create and document responsible principles for the development, deployment and usage of AI.
Train employees about how AI can help them work more efficiently. Be transparent about the usage of AI to create a culture of collaboration.
Go slow to move fast and measure your progress. Share the wins and build upon your momentum.

Laggards

Don’t worry — if you feel behind when it comes to AI adoption, you're not alone. As companies navigate the AI landscape, you can learn from both their mistakes and successes. These simple steps can take you to the starting line, so when you are ready, you can adopt and integrate AI successfully into your organization.

Steps to help you get started:

Develop a clear strategy and review it early and often with stakeholders and employees.
Focus on getting your data clean, centralized, and AI-ready.
Invest in talent to help bring internal expertise up to speed and upskill existing employees.
Build responsible, sustainable data practices to drive security and efficiency.
Train employees on AI best practices for development, deployment, and usage of AI across the organization.
Start with 1 to 3 uses cases and share progress.

Cisco AI Journey

Cisco is here to connect and protect your organization at every step of your AI journey. From identifying the right solutions to accelerating your implementation, we’ll help you achieve the full value of AI.

We have everything you need for your journey, all under one roof:

AI infrastructure: Scale to meet the increasing demands of AI workloads.
Security for AI: Secure the use of AI in your organization and across the AI stack.
Data to drive insights and context: Gain differentiated insights with visibility into data across your network, security, applications, and data.
AI-native products: Experience a substantial change in productivity with AI-powered self-healing, automation, and guidance.
Services: Realize the value of AI with faster deployment, implementation, and adoption.

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