AI VALUE ARCHITECTURE
Turn AI opportunities into decisions you can defend
AI strategy is not a list of tools or a static document. It is a repeatable way to connect business priorities, AI scenarios, readiness, experiments and measured value.
In short
Use this public guide to move from many possible AI ideas to a small portfolio of qualified experiments. Each topic answers one decision, names the required input and defines a useful output.
01From direction to evidence
The sequence is a decision loop, not a one-off project. New evidence can send an initiative back to an earlier step.
- 01
Discover
Find relevant AI opportunities in business capabilities, processes and actual work.
- 02
Understand
Describe what changes in the workflow, who is affected and where human judgement remains.
- 03
Assess
Test value, readiness, feasibility, risk and decision confidence separately.
- 04
Prioritise
Compare opportunities on the same dimensions and choose what deserves attention now.
- 05
Experiment
Run a bounded test with a baseline, acceptance criteria, cost ceiling and stop rules.
- 06
Measure
Record what changed, how it was measured and what remains uncertain.
- 07
Decide
Continue, change, scale, defer or stop with a visible basis and a named owner.
02Where should you start?
Choose the situation that best describes your work today.
I need ideas
Start with business priorities and discover scenarios worth understanding.
I have an AI idea
Assess whether the organisation, data and systems are ready for it.
We have too many ideas
Compare opportunities without hiding trade-offs in one magic score.
We want to test one
Turn the scenario into a small, controlled experiment.
We have tested something
Separate activity from documented business value.
We need an investment decision
Bring options, evidence, uncertainty and ownership into one decision.
I found a scenario
Understand what it asks of you before you judge it.
Someone says it works
Check what the claim rests on before you build on it.
03Build the capability one decision at a time
The structure is deliberately modular. More topics can be added without changing the user journey or turning the navigation into a catalogue.
- 01From business strategy to AI opportunitiesTranslate priorities and process friction into a focused map of AI opportunities.
- 02AI opportunity prioritisationCompare opportunities on value, feasibility, effort, risk and evidence without collapsing the trade-offs.
- 03AI readinessAssess readiness for a specific scenario across process, data, systems, people, security and governance.
- 04Experiment and validationDesign a bounded test that can disprove the value hypothesis before production investment.
- 05Measuring AI valueConnect AI activity to measurable changes in revenue, cost, productivity, quality, experience or risk.
- 06Human and AI adoptionDesign the future workflow, responsibilities and controls around real work rather than tool access.
- 07Build, buy, configure or reuseChoose the solution path against business requirements, constraints and operating responsibility.
- 08AI portfolio and roadmapBalance exploration, delivery capacity, dependencies and evidence across multiple initiatives.
- 09From prototype to productionSet the evidence and operating threshold an experiment must meet before broader use.
- 10AI operating model and skillsDefine ownership, decision rights, lifecycle controls and the capabilities required around the portfolio.
- 11Scenario or evidenceTell a possible use of AI apart from a claim, a reported implementation and a measured result before you rely on it.
- 12Reading an AI scenarioUse the ten questions every scenario answers to judge whether it is worth investigating in your own work.
Public by design
These guides contain no customer data and require no sign-in. The scenario library may require sign-in because it contains a separate working surface.