Workflow
Workflow readiness asks whether the work can be described in enough detail to redesign. The binding constraint when the organisation does not yet know what its workflow actually looks like.
Readiness
Six dimensions that determine whether an organisation can absorb AI
Readiness is a conjunctive diagnostic across six dimensions: workflow, information, team, governance, cultural and technical. The lowest score binds. Any one absent dimension blocks adoption regardless of how strong the others are.
Overview
The six dimensions of readiness
- Readiness is not a score. It is the minimum across six conditions: workflow, information, team, governance, cultural and technical. Any one of them, if absent, blocks AI adoption regardless of how strong the others are, which is what makes the diagnostic conjunctive rather than additive.
- The diagnostic is pattern-agnostic in form but pattern-specific in weighting. Cognitive Partnership weights cultural and team readiness most heavily. Encapsulated Utility weights information and technical readiness. Autonomous Agency weights governance readiness. Discrete Delegation tolerates the lowest baseline across the board.
- A readiness assessment surfaces the binding constraint first, because closing the binding constraint is the only intervention that moves an organisation closer to absorbing the chosen pattern. Work on a non-binding dimension is wasted effort until the binding one moves.
Dimensions
The six dimensions assessed by the readiness diagnostic
The lowest score binds. Any one absent dimension blocks adoption regardless of how strong the others are.
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Information
Information readiness asks whether the information the work depends on can be reached by the systems and people that need it. The binding constraint is usually plumbing rather than quality.
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Team
Team readiness covers skills, posture and the local management capacity to support practice change. A team posture matters at least as much as skill level.
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Governance
Governance readiness asks whether the people, meetings and authority to make AI decisions exist. Having a policy document is not the same as having governance.
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Cultural
Cultural readiness is the softest dimension and most often the decisive one. Tolerance for iteration, transparency about failure, the working relationship between technical and business functions.
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Technical
Technical readiness is the infrastructure dimension: identity, access controls, integration capacity, the ability to run or call models in a way that meets security posture. Often the dimension easiest to mistake for the whole question.
Contact
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