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Google Cloud · June 2020 · Playbook

Google Cloud's AI Adoption Framework

Google Cloud's AI Adoption Framework is a 2020 guide from Google Cloud. Its core idea: Lead, Learn, Access, Scale, Secure, Automate across tactical, strategic and transformational maturity.

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6 themes × 3 phases
Lead, Learn, Access, Scale, Secure, Automate across tactical, strategic and transformational maturity
Source: Google Cloud, Google Cloud's AI Adoption Framework, June 2020.

Key ideas

  1. 01
    Frames AI capability across four areas: people, process, technology and data.
  2. 02
    Six maturity themes (Lead, Learn, Access, Scale, Secure, Automate) scored across three phases: tactical, strategic, transformational.
  3. 03
    Part two is a technical deep dive aimed at technology leaders building ML capability on cloud platforms.

What it means for you Draft

For executives at $10–100M companies

The six-theme by three-phase grid is a quick way to have a leadership team rate itself. Everything after the executive summary targets ML engineering teams and predates generative AI, so most $10–100M leaders can stop after part one.

Limitations

Low trust.Vendor whitepaper from a cloud and AI platform seller; no research sample; landing page is behind a lead-capture form.

About the publisher: Sells AI and cloud products.

Cite the original

Google Cloud. "Google Cloud's AI Adoption Framework." June 29, 2020. https://cloud.google.com/resources/cloud-ai-adoption-framework-whitepaper

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