I think one of the only companies doing this right, and that has the resources to do this right, is facebook, as they seperate AI research and teams that are focused on putting these things into production (i.e. ML engineers vs Ml researchers). Trying to combine these two things into the same role is resulting in continued confusion and frustration. I like this Stitchfix article as an overview (http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers...)
And this is thanks to Yann LeCun whose vast experience at Bell Labs experience has shown him how mixing engineer/business requirements/deadlines with research produces shitty results, and so he designed it this way.
