Alignment — Practices & Playbooks
Applicable methods that turn the framework into day-to-day work.
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AR-A01 · Strategic Intent & AI North Star Design
Create an outcome-led AI North Star that guides choices, sets boundaries and connects AI ambition to the enterprise strategy already in force.
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AR-A02 · AI-to-Strategy Outcome Mapping
Map how AI could influence strategic outcomes and identify the causal assumptions and evidence required before investment.
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AR-A03 · Strategic Themes, Guardrails & OKR Translation
Translate the AI North Star into a small set of durable themes, measurable outcomes and guardrails that portfolios and teams can use.
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AR-A04 · AI Decision Architecture & DACI
Make material AI decisions visible and assign one Driver, one Approver, required Contributors and transparent Informed roles.
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AR-A05 · Executive Outcome Ownership Contract
Turn executive sponsorship into an explicit contract for enterprise outcomes, guardrails, major investment commitments and material exceptions, with routine decisions deliberately delegated.
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AR-A06 · Delegated Governance & Decision Mode Design
Translate enterprise Autonomy Appetite into decision delegation and human involvement so teams can move quickly within proportionate, observable boundaries.
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AR-A07 · Opportunity Hypothesis & Assumption Mapping
Frame each AI opportunity as a testable outcome hypothesis and expose the assumptions that must be learned before scale.
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AR-A08 · Multi-Dimensional AI Portfolio Prioritisation
Prioritise opportunities using value, feasibility, data, risk, ethics, adoption and strategic fit without averaging away critical constraints.
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AR-A09 · Learning-Driven Roadmap & Evidence Gates
Sequence AI investment through the canonical Intake, Explore, Validate, Scale and Retire states, with movement defined by evidence rather than output milestones alone.
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AR-A10 · Lean AI Portfolio Flow & WIP Limits
Manage AI work as a flow system with explicit states, entry/exit policies, WIP limits and active ageing decisions.
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AR-A11 · Business-Unit AI Translation Canvas
Translate enterprise AI intent into a business unit's outcomes, workflows, opportunity areas, guardrails and ownership without creating a separate local strategy.
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AR-A12 · BU Value Outcome & Benefit Framing
Define value in the business unit's own operational and financial terms and create a measurable benefit hypothesis with accountable ownership.
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AR-A13 · Federated Ownership & Shared Capability Contract
Define what the enterprise provides centrally, what business units own locally and how recurring demand becomes a reusable capability.
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AR-A14 · Business-Unit Readiness & Enablement Pull
Assess readiness as observable conditions and create a demand-led enablement plan that helps each business unit progress at the right pace.
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AR-A15 · Strategy-to-Portfolio-to-Backlog Traceability
Create a lightweight trace from strategic intent through outcomes, portfolio decisions, hypotheses and backlog work to operational evidence.
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AR-A16 · AI OKR & Outcome Review Design
Design OKRs and review routines that separate outcomes, learning, operational health and delivery evidence across AI maturity stages.
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AR-A17 · Operational Learning-to-Strategy Loop
Convert operational evidence into portfolio and strategy decisions while filtering noise and preserving accountable interpretation.
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AR-A18 · “Why This AI, Why Now” Narrative
Create a credible initiative narrative that explains the problem, timing, outcome, uncertainty, trade-offs and non-goals without hype.
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AR-A19 · Role-Based Alignment & Change Impact Mapping
Translate one coherent AI intent into role-specific impacts, choices, support and feedback without fragmenting the strategy.
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AR-A20 · Expectation, Fatigue & Psychological Safety Pulse
Continuously sense expectation gaps, change overload, silent non-adoption and the safety to surface uncertainty, errors and ethical concerns.
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AR-A21 · Strategic Alignment Risk Sensing & Reset
Continuously sense when AI direction, ownership, portfolio choices, autonomy or change demand drift from enterprise intent, then trigger a proportionate alignment reset.
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AR-R06 · Weekly Alignment Flow & Blocker Triage
Resolve ownership, dependency, capacity and decision blockers that prevent the next evidence step.
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AR-R07 · Biweekly Hypothesis & Evidence Conversation
Review assumptions and evidence, then decide whether to continue, pivot, add evidence, pause or stop.
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AR-R08 · Monthly AI Portfolio Flow & WIP Conversation
Balance investment, capability demand and change capacity while managing WIP, ageing and portfolio mix.
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