The essential AI checklist: Future-proof your workforce in six simple steps
When you’re constantly bombarded with conflicting messages about AI, and perhaps more pertinently, the right way to implement AI, it can be hard to know what to listen to. Of course, as 72% of business leaders anticipate AI enhancing employee productivity, listen we must [1]. So, to help offset the dizziness of the relentless AI whirlwind, relax—HP offers this six-point AI checklist to help you optimize AI deployment to unlock more meaningful work.
Step 1. Assess your starting position
- How old is your current device fleet?
- Have you transitioned from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
- What kind of requests and tech issues are coming up regularly?
Step 2. Have the right support in place
- Does your IT team have the required partners and services?
- What level of investment should you put toward AI tools?
- Who will be tracking and distributing the appropriate AI tools?
Step 3. Meet your people where they’re at
- What are specific personas tasked with?
- What AI tools could help them with those?
- What AI tools are they already using?
Step 4. Understand your team’s skills gaps
- What AI training will be needed?
- Will certifications be needed?
- What level of training is sufficient?
Step 5. Help your company and people navigate AI tech
- Which AI needs will specialists have?
- What tech will they need to run it?
- How should you determine this?
Step 6 Keep looking forward as AI progresses
- Are your tech choices setting you up to lead the industry and be a competitive force?
- What’s viable in AI and what’s still sci-fi for now?
- Where should your company be looking to keep an eye on emerging AI offerings?
Approach AI the right way
HP developed this checklist to help provide your AI decision-making with a clear north star, and we’ve developed a broad portfolio of AI-focused devices and support services to equip your teams for real progress. HP’s AI PCs enable your workforce to unlock new levels of productivity, collaboration, and creativity. And with partners like Intel, which is engaging over 100 ISVs to optimize a wide variety of cutting-edge tools for Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, your users can handle anything.
Select AI PCs bring advanced protection like Endpoint Security Controller to help fend off quantum computer attacks. Award-winning HP Wolf endpoint security uses AI-based protection to defend against known and unknown malware. Our world-class IT solutions, HP Workforce Solutions, leverage AI-driven insights to optimize workforce experiences across PC, print, collaboration, and security.
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[1] HP, “AI in the Workplace Report,” March 2024, https://publish-pro.hp.com/content/dam/sites/worldwide/apps/work-relationship-index/reports/ai-in-the-workplace/ us-en_ai-in-the-workplace.pdf
