The utilisation of AI is having a major impact on the function of society and business. It is an essential technological driver, which leads, in addition to better productivity, also to new ways of working, processes and business opportunities. The composition of work will change and there will be new professions. A central issue is how we can best exploit the opportunities brought by digitalisation and AI in creating added value and enhancing productivity. This applies to both the private and public sectors. There are also ethical questions to be pondered when the decision-making shifts partly from humans to machines.

The first step is to understand the level of your organisation’s AI. After that, selecting potential improvement steps becomes possible. VTT’s AI Maturity Tool can be used as a free-of-charge self-assessment web tool, which produces a basic visualisation of AI maturity. It gives a baseline of current AI maturity in six dimensions, which can be used for recognising the most important and urgent development targets depending on the nature of the business and size of the organisation.

The six dimensions of the AI Maturity Tool include Strategy and Management, Products and Services, Competence and Cooperation, Processes, Data and Technology.

The tool has been developed based on the work done in Finland’s Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, which has been published as a part of Finnish Digibarometer 2018 (in Finnish).