Release Notes

14 Cognitive Automation
3.3 Enabling
In a typical Software project, this phase would be called the Develop phase. However, Cognitive Automation
initiatives carry additional activities that need to be done in coordination. We call this the Enabling phase.
Figure 8 - Enabling Phase
Monitoring and calibrating the efforts of your project’s efforts using the guideposts provided by the pre-defined
Value and Business Case is done throughout this phase.
Maintaining the excitement and engagement of the Stakeholders during this phase is essential because so
much of an AI project’s success is dependent not just on the domain knowledge of the stakeholders, but their
availability.
As discussed earlier, most Cognitive Automation projects within an Engineering organization are going to be
custom due to the proprietary nature of the data, processes, and tools ecosystem. During the Enabling phase,
the team needs to act on the recommendations from the Proving phase and curate, cleanse, and maintain the
cleanliness of the data through enhanced business processes.
Lastly, we have the typical ‘development’ that comes with projects such as this. The design of the algorithms
or analytics models, the development of databases and services to access that data, and any coding to simplify
end-user access to the models, reports, and recommendations.