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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Lead Successful AI Transformation in Canada

Publisher IDC
Published Dec 24, 2025
Length 9 Pages
SKU # IDC20676906

Description

This IDC PeerScape elaborates on five key practices that resonate among client conversations. They touch upon governance and risk management, human centricity and change management, domain expertise for greater contextualization, approach toward build or buy choices for AI solutions, and the importance of collaborating and not just contracting. These practices were recommended to peers by the executives that IDC interacted with to ensure AI project's success. IDC guidance drawn from learnings in this document are intended to help Canadian companies further progress to reach new levels of AI maturity as they increasingly become digital businesses."The advent of AI, GenAI, and agentic AI has brought about several paradigms of change in the Canadian business landscape. There is greater interest than ever in the transformational potential of technology. Across IT and business units, this interest is increasingly being matched by investment in driving adoption and even disruption with AI," says Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, research analyst, Enterprise Services at IDC. "As buyers continue to experiment and operationalize AI, learnings from their experiences form a valuable foundation for the collective advancement of Canadian businesses."

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Practice 1: Define Governance Upfront

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Practice 2: Place People at the Center of Your AI Vision

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Practice 3: Ensure That Domain Expertise Is Built into AI

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Practice 4: Prioritize Buying; Build Only When Necessary

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Practice 5: Collaborate With a Trusted Vendor

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