AI Readiness
What You Own at the End of an AI Readiness Assessment
An assessment is bought as a number of days and remembered as a document. The days end. The document is what you still have twelve months later, when the person who commissioned it has moved on and somebody asks why a pa...
Measuring the Value of an AI Readiness Assessment
Twelve months after an assessment, somebody who did not authorise it will ask what it achieved. It is a fair question and it is usually asked at budget time, which is the worst moment to start looking for an answer.
The ...
Public-Sector AI Case Studies: Lessons for Organizations Beginning with AI
Public organizations have been deploying AI long enough that there is now something better than speculation to learn from. Federal agencies publish inventories of what they run, auditors examine those programmes against ...
Is Your Organization Ready for AI? 10 Questions to Ask
Most organizations do not arrive at artificial intelligence through a strategy. They arrive because a staff member found a tool that saved them an afternoon, or because a board member asked at the wrong moment what the p...
The 7 Dimensions of AI Readiness
Ask ten suppliers what makes an organization ready for AI and you will get ten lists. Most of them are the same list with different headings, and the differences matter less than the discipline of having one and applying...
AI Readiness Checklist for Public-Sector Organizations
A checklist is only useful if working through it changes what you do. This one is built so that every item has a verifiable answer: something you can point at, not something you can feel confident about.
It follows the s...
AI Readiness Assessment for K-12 School Districts
School districts are further into AI than almost any other kind of public organization, and further from having decided anything about it.
That is not a criticism. Teachers found generative AI tools useful immediately, s...
AI Readiness for Cities and Counties
Cities and counties are asked to do more each year with staffing that does not grow at the same rate, which makes automation genuinely attractive rather than merely fashionable. They are also among the organizations leas...
AI Governance Framework for Public-Sector Organizations
Most governance advice aimed at public bodies fails in the same way: it is written for an organization with a compliance department, a policy team and time. The result is a framework that is genuinely good and that a cou...
AI Cybersecurity Risks Organizations Should Assess Before Deployment
Introducing an AI service into an organization changes its security position in ways that ordinary application risk assessment does not capture. Not because AI is uniquely dangerous, but because these systems combine two...