{"product_id":"the-ai-ready-organisation-building-the-vision-foundations-people-and-strategy-to-make-ai-work-9798196389290","title":"The AI Ready Organisation: Building the Vision, Foundations, People, and Strategy to Make AI Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andy Pardoe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Project Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost AI programmes stall not because of the technology, but because of the organisation around it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo years in, with a strategy, a steering committee, a substantial budget, and visible activity, most enterprise AI programmes are still not adopting AI in any way that materially changes how the business runs. The diagnosis is rarely about the AI itself. The diagnosis is structural, cultural, capability-based, and decision-making - and most senior leaders misread it because the symptoms look technical even when the causes are not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe AI-Ready Organisation\u003c\/i\u003e is the book about the organisation around the AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on twenty years of building AI capability inside large companies, leading AI delivery in global consulting firms, and advising governments and regulators, Professor Andy Pardoe sets out a working diagnostic frame and a practical operating playbook for senior leaders charged with making AI actually land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside the book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe four constraints: \u003c\/b\u003e that produce the AI adoption stall: structure, culture, capability, decision-making. Why they reinforce each other, and why fixing one in isolation rarely works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe three failure modes: \u003c\/b\u003e that recur across stalled programmes: the technology-led programme that builds platforms no-one uses, the strategy-led programme whose dashboards are green while nothing changes, and the bottom-up scatter of two hundred parallel initiatives that never compound.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe four pillars of AI-readiness\u003c\/b\u003e: Prepare and Innovate, Tech and Scaled Delivery, People and Process, and Perspective and Planning. The working definition that the rest of the book builds toward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOperational chapters: \u003c\/b\u003e on where AI sits in the organisation (centralised, federated, hybrid), the Centre of Excellence question, operating model design, the Communities of Practice and Champion network, the cultural conditions that determine whether AI engagement is honest, the workforce conversation that most organisations duck, change management as a discipline tailored to AI adoption, the skills and roles that make a working programme possible, the data and platform foundations that support it, the governance that enables rather than blocks, and the measurement that drives the right behaviours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThree chapters on adapting and sustaining\u003c\/b\u003e: how the picture differs for generative AI specifically, the vendor and partner strategy that an AI-ready organisation needs in a fast-moving market, and how to keep AI-readiness alive over years rather than treating it as a one-off programme.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA complete sixty-four-question AI-Readiness Assessment: \u003c\/b\u003e structured around the four pillars, with interpretation thresholds and an interactive version at ai-ready.info.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA toolkit of operational artefacts: \u003c\/b\u003e the Operating Model on a Page, the Change Management Workstream Design, the Governance Framework Keyed to Risk, and the AI Scorecard for Executive Reporting - that leadership teams can lift and adapt for their own work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenior leaders responsible for making AI deliver real organisational change: Chief AI Officers, Chief Data and AI Officers, Heads of AI, Directors of Transformation, CIOs, COOs, and the boards and senior executives who hold them to account. Partners in consulting firms whose clients are asking them harder AI questions than the AI hype cycle has answered. Senior leaders in regulated industries - financial services, professional services, healthcare, government - where the structural and governance demands of AI adoption are particularly acute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about AI. It is a book about the organisation around the AI - what makes some firms able to absorb AI and others able only to announce it, and what to do if you are running one of the second kind and want to be running one of the first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889905909911,"sku":"9798196389290","price":2257.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196389290.webp?v=1781178177","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-ai-ready-organisation-building-the-vision-foundations-people-and-strategy-to-make-ai-work-9798196389290","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}