Where a company with no AI project starts: who decides, what it costs, what changes for the people. With Italian figures and their source.
AI in a small company does not stall for lack of technology: it stalls because nobody decides. In large firms innovation has a department, in small ones it has a person, almost always the owner. If that person is not convinced the project never starts, however good the demo was.
These articles are about where a company with no AI project actually starts: how you pick the first process, who needs to be involved, what changes for the people doing the work, and how to spot a consultant who is selling you smoke. It is the cluster closest to what we do every day.
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