Business and strategy

Centre of excellence

A small central team that sets AI standards, shares good practice, runs shared platforms and supports business units, rather than doing all AI work itself. It works best when it enables teams rather than acting as a gatekeeper.


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AI champion

A member of staff in a team who helps colleagues adopt AI, shares useful prompts and feeds back problems. A champion n…

AI governance

The policies, roles, processes and records an organisation uses to decide which AI to use, how, and who is accountable…

AI maturity

How far an organisation has progressed in using AI well, from ad hoc individual use to governed, measured use embedded…

AI register (inventory)

A record of the AI systems an organisation uses or builds, with each one's owner, purpose, data, risk level and review…

AI strategy

An organisation's plan for where AI will create value, what it will not be used for, and the data, skills, governance …

Acceptable use policy

A short, practical document telling staff which AI tools they may use, what data may go into them, what must be checke…

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