Generative AI Utilization Maturity

Most companies want to leverage generative AI to increase productivity. However, in reality, various circumstances lead to different levels of adoption.

Moreover, there are probably very few companies that can confidently declare, "Our company is successfully utilizing generative AI."

Based on my experience, I have summarized a Generative AI Utilization Maturity Model here.

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Generative AI Utilization Maturity Model

Level

Overview

Behavior of Executives

Behavior of Employees and Organizations

1

Not utilizing AI at all

⚫︎ "Generative AI is full of lies and completely unreliable."
⚫︎ "Our company is analog, so we have no connection to generative AI yet."

⚫︎ "No matter how great generative AI is, it has nothing to do with our company."

2

Initial usage, but entirely left to frontline employees

⚫︎ "I'm interested in generative AI, but it's too early to invest."
⚫︎ "Anyone who wants to try it can do so."

⚫︎ Employees independently sign up and start using AI tools.
⚫︎ Due to a lack of executive support, usage remains at an experimental level and does not contribute much to actual business operations.

3

Executives start investing, but leave the implementation to employees

⚫︎ "We expect significant productivity gains from generative AI and have invested in tools and infrastructure."
⚫︎ "However, the company has no unified implementation strategy, leaving it to individual teams."
⚫︎ "If we introduce famous AI tools, productivity should naturally improve."
⚫︎ "We've invested in expensive generative AI tools, but results are slow to appear, making us skeptical of the frontline teams."
⚫︎ "If we hire data scientists, generative AI adoption will go smoothly." (misconception)

⚫︎ Employees have access to generative AI tools but need to restructure business processes, which takes time before benefits become visible.
⚫︎ Executives tend to view generative AI as magic, leading to unrealistic expectations that are hard to meet.
⚫︎ Some LLM experts exist in the company, but they realize that model expertise alone does not solve real business problems.

4

Executives invest while simultaneously establishing a company-wide implementation process, with clear departmental business improvement KPIs.

⚫︎ Understands that generative AI is not magic.
⚫︎ Instructs all departments to redesign business processes with generative AI in mind.
⚫︎ Tracks each department's productivity improvement rate as a key KPI.
⚫︎ Recognizes the necessity of engineering for AI adoption and strengthens investment in development and IT teams.

⚫︎ Centralizes and manages internal knowledge to make it usable for generative AI.
⚫︎ Redesigns business processes from scratch based on generative AI capabilities.
⚫︎ Visualizes productivity improvement metrics and reflects them in departmental and individual goals.
⚫︎ Accumulates internal experience in utilizing generative AI.

Let me know if you need any refinements!