Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered being a disruptive force for existing companies and a promising avenue towards competitive advantage. A myriad of companies started investing in AI initiatives. However, a significant number of AI projects is not successfully deployed. Taking a closer look at financial service organizations, we aim at contributing to closing the gap between understanding the potential of AI and proactively leveraging the latter. We draw on affordance theory and socio-technical systems (STS) theory to identify the required socio-technical changes to actualize affordances of AI in financial service organizations. We present preliminary findings from a multiple case study approach with five financial service organizations based on rigorous interview coding that yields first insights into AI affordances. Building up on this, we will prioritize and structure future in-depth case studies to investigate how to orchestrate AI-induced changes in STS for actualizing AI affordances.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Event Title
15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2020)