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Executive AI Readiness Checklist
A practical leadership checklist for assessing whether your organisation is ready to make useful, responsible progress with AI.
The answer in brief
- What it is
- A practical leadership checklist for assessing whether your organisation is ready to make useful, responsible progress with AI.
- Best suited to
- Growing organisations that need clearer AI priorities, stronger product definition or experienced capacity around focused work.
- What useful progress looks like
- Use the checklist to structure an executive discussion, surface assumptions and identify where stronger foundations or clearer decisions are required.
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Six dimensions. One leadership view.
Use the checklist to structure an executive discussion, surface assumptions and identify where stronger foundations or clearer decisions are required.
Work
Do you understand which workflows, decisions and knowledge-intensive activities should change?
AI + technology
Do you know what is already in use, what is duplicated and what requires further investment?
Data + knowledge
Can priority use cases access reliable, appropriately controlled information?
People
Do leaders and teams have the judgement, confidence and support to adopt new ways of working?
Trust + governance
Are accountability, policy, security, privacy and human oversight proportionate to the risk?
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Designed for a useful conversation
This decision aid helps a leadership team compare perspectives and identify the small number of questions that deserve action.
FAQ
Questions leaders ask.
Direct answers to the questions that commonly shape an initial conversation.
01What does Executive AI Readiness Checklist mean in practice?+
A practical leadership checklist for assessing whether your organisation is ready to make useful, responsible progress with AI.
02Who is Executive AI Readiness Checklist most useful for?+
Growing organisations that need a clearer AI decision, a practical product route or focused senior capacity.
03What is the most useful next step?+
Use the checklist to structure an executive discussion, surface assumptions and identify where stronger foundations or clearer decisions are required.
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