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Most organisations know they should be doing something with AI. Fewer know how to assess their true position, build capabilities systematically, or measure value beyond cost savings. This is my toolkit of frameworks, mechanisms, tools, and thought-leadership that I use every day in my conversations with Chartered Directors and their Boards navigating the multi-speed reality of AI adoption.
The AI Stages of Adoption
A five-stage framework for understanding where your organisation stands in its adoption of AI
Five Pillars of AI Capability
The five capabilities you must mature to successfully transform your organisation with AI
Well-Advised Strategic Priorities
Measuring AI value beyond cost savings, capturing returns across innovation, customer, operations, and profit
Minimum Lovable Governance
The operating principle for building AI governance that people embrace rather than route around
AI CoE Simulator
Reveal your organisation's multi-speed AI reality. Map each business function to AISA stages, assess Five Pillars maturity, and surface the capability gaps blocking your next transition
AI Initiative Rubric
Score AI initiatives against Well-Advised strategic priorities and Five Pillars capabilities. Ensure proposals deliver balanced value and build the capabilities your organisation actually needs
AI Strategy
Applying Richard Rumelt's strategic framework to AI transformation. From the business case trap through diagnosis, guiding policy, to coherent actions.
AI CoE
An eight-week guide to establishing your AI Centre of Excellence. Structure, functions, capabilities, and governance for multi-speed adoption.
AI Sovereignty
Navigating the sovereignty trilemma of trust, speed, and control. Energy constraints, data centre diplomacy, and regulatory fragmentation across regions.
AI Business Case
Building business cases that capture AI's unique value creation patterns. Strategic alignment, multi-dimensional metrics, and compelling board presentations.
