Artificial Intelligence

People-centric AI strategy development and governance

Turn AI-powered efficiency into business outcomes

Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the status quo for businesses in every market, impacting processes, policies, and more. The pressure to embrace and adopt AI is intense, but organizations are painfully aware of the potential risks — from untested technology and unpredictable costs to data leaks and job displacement. 

BDO can help you enter the new era of AI with clear, practical advice and direction. Approached correctly, we believe AI has the potential to enhance your performance, help power new, data-driven strategies, and create new operational efficiencies and revenue streams. But many organizations need help defining how and where they should best integrate it into their operations. 

Working in close coordination with hyperscale leaders in AI model development and application, BDO is helping drive AI innovation. But in the engagement context, our core principle is that AI selection should be fit-for-purpose and fit-for-potential, bringing synthesized data to your strategy and operations and contributing meaningfully to your people, your outcomes, and your bottom line. 

This focus on AI-driven outcomes, rather than AI for its own sake, helps to distinguish our approach. No matter where you find yourself in your AI journey, BDO meets you at the level of your business objectives, helping define the ways AI can deliver meaningful ROI and amplify the ingenuity and abilities of your people.

We work closely with you to assess your readiness, and then help you define a vision and strategy for AI that aligns with your priorities, opportunities, and business objectives. Once implementation is underway, we will work with you to select AI technologies; build a robust, scalable data architecture and technological foundation; and offer ongoing support, training, and change management to help support onboarding and adoption. Further, we integrate risk management and compliance frameworks to ensure safe, responsible AI practices across your organization.


How BDO Can Help

Approaches to AI

Organizations approach the potential and challenges of AI adoption from different angles. The BDO combination of deep business and technological experience helps us deliver strategies and solutions that align to different needs and expectations. 

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AI for Finance

From the perspective of the CFO or other financial leadership, AI offers the potential for enhanced financial analysis, risk management, and even improved procurement performance. But concerns about the cost of AI adoption — and details of its secure, effective deployment — are common. Our deep experience in corporate finance helps us identify opportunities for AI-driven performance improvement, while our technical teams can scale recommendations to align with financial realities.

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AI for Operations

A business leader may look to AI as a tool to help improve operational performance, enhance competitiveness, or improve levels of service to clients and customers. BDO has a detailed AI assessment process that can help identify specific AI use cases that can enhance outcomes from existing business, and even support new initiatives and revenue streams. We can help you navigate internal challenges with proven change management strategies that simplify and speed AI adoption.

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AI for IT

From the CTO and CIO to the Director level, almost every IT leader is under pressure to integrate AI into their organization. But AI is not a single technology. Platforms and providers are proliferating, requiring careful evaluation and due diligence in selection, and in every case, they require a robust foundation of secure, accessible data. Further, the pressure to integrate AI arrives in the context of existing workloads and requests. BDO can help you evaluate platforms, create data architectures, help mitigate skill gaps, and develop and maintain risk management strategies — satisfying business demands and IT requirements at once.

The BDO Analytics Maturity Model 

Analytics exist along a continuum of increasing complexity and increasing business value, from simple reporting to generative AI and AI-powered cognitive analytics. Movement along this continuum creates the opportunity to drive increasingly significant outcomes from the data you create and collect. 

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Descriptive Analytics

"What happened?"

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Diagnostic Analytics

"Why did it happen?"

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Predictive Analytics

"What might happen?"

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Prescriptive Analytics

"What should I do?"

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Cognitive Analytics

"What don't I know?"

Three key principles underlying BDO’s approach to advancing analytics maturity. 

Data is the foundation of analytics. It must be refined, rationalized, standardized, and properly governed, and a centralized data strategy and scalable architecture are essential. BDO can help assess your current state, develop your data strategy, and define the technological and operational investments necessary for success.

Advancing an analytics program is part technology and part evangelism: The right data infrastructure is of no value if the workforce resists the effort of adapting to use it. Our change management professionals can help enlist your people in the methods and importance of analytics adoption, helping them develop the insights that drive outcomes.

Data and analytics require significant investment in people, process, and technology. BDO can help define potential ROI at the outset of your analytics journey and then monitor and guide your progress from near-term wins to transformational advancement.

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Solutions

BDO AI Solution

Wherever you are in your AI journey, BDO provides comprehensive AI services and solutions to help you find efficiencies, address business challenges, and foster sustainable growth.

The AI revolution is here. 

But where do you start?

With infinite possibilities, the challenge is turning ideas into reality — navigating AI’s risks while driving safe, responsible adoption to solve business challenges. When you move beyond the theoretical to implementation and iteration, AI can transform the way you work and unlock human potential at every level of your organization. 

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