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AI Initiative Rubric

Scores every pilot candidate against value and capability before you commit.

Version 2.0 Introduced Diagnostic

What it is

A pilot evaluation tool that scores candidate initiatives across the five Well-Advised value priorities and Five Pillars capability building, recommending whether to prioritise, defer, pipeline, or develop them further.

Pilot portfolios fail quietly when initiatives are chosen by enthusiasm: the loudest sponsor wins, value concentrates in one dimension, and capability building never happens. The rubric forces every candidate through the same gate before money moves.

What it examines

Each candidate initiative, scored against the five Well-AdvisedGlossaryWell-AdvisedThe framework of five strategic priorities, Innovation, Customer Value, Operational Excellence, Responsible Transformation, and Revenue, used to ensure AI investments create balanced value rather than narrow cost reduction.Well-Advised is a Principle within the Remake framework.Find out more → strategic priorities — is the value real in every dimension, or a cost-reduction case wearing a business case’s clothes? — and the Five PillarsGlossaryFive Pillars of AI CapabilityThe five capability domains of an AI capability model that cut across every level of maturity: Governance and Accountability, Technical Infrastructure, Operational Excellence, Value Realisation and Lifecycle Management, and People, Culture and Adoption. Read together, they tell a Board not whether it has AI but whether it can run it.Five Pillars of AI Capability is a Diagnostic within the Remake framework.Find out more → capability areas: what the initiative builds for the organisation beyond its own delivery.

The readings

A suitability verdict per initiative: balanced value creation, strategic alignment, and capability contribution — or the specific dimension where the case falls short. Read across a portfolio, it shows where your pipeline is over-weighted and what the next pilot should deliberately build.

Running it

Score one initiative at a time, ideally with its sponsor in the room: each Well-Advised priority and each capability area in turn. A portfolio pass — every candidate through the same gate in one session — is where the rubric earns its keep: the over-weighting shows immediately.

The Tool

Run the rubric

The interactive rubric runs in MyMT, my members’ workspace. Score your candidate initiatives and see the portfolio picture assemble.

The Demo

See a pilot scored, end to end

The rubric walked through on camera: one candidate initiative scored on strategic alignment and capability building, then the portfolio picture, with the full transcript on the watch page.

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History

Provenance and revision history. Every asset in the library carries this record, so what you are applying, and which version of it, is never in doubt.

Asset
AI Initiative Rubric
Kind
Diagnostic — assesses a current state and returns a reading
Status
Current
Version
2.0
Origin
Developed by Mario Thomas; introduced June 2025 as an interactive tool on mariothomas.com, now part of the MyMT diagnostics suite
Registry
Recorded in the Remake Library and defined in the glossary

Versions

  1. 2.0 Rebuilt as a MyMT diagnostic.
  2. 1.0 Introduced as an interactive tool on mariothomas.com.

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