When BI tools arrived — Looker, Tableau, Sigma — analytics teams had to figure out how to put a powerful new capability into the hands of finance, sales, ops, and marketing. Not just hand over access. Actually make it work across the organization, safely, with governance that held.
That required disciplines most other functions don't have: certified datasets, governed self-service, training programs built for non-technical users, adoption measurement, internal evangelism, standards that survived turnover. Hard-won and specific. Built over years.
AI enablement requires exactly those disciplines. Every team now scrambling to "figure out AI" for their business is rediscovering lessons the analytics world already learned. Your function has a head start here that almost nobody is capitalizing on.