What it is for
The Implementation Pathway Model describes the work of adoption. The Adoption Guide covers the decisions that come before it: whether to enter as conforming or aligned, who governs the work, which people are in scope, what it will cost, and how the commitment is recorded.
Main decisions
- Conforming or aligned. When each entry point makes sense, and why the data literacy threshold cannot be traded away.
- Minimum governance. Three roles: strategic oversight by a senior leader with budget authority; a named coordinator with protected time; and an existing governance body that oversees the work. No new committee is required.
- Decision rights. Six decisions that must be assigned to named roles before adoption begins, including which populations are in scope, which classification to declare, which assessment platform to use, and how AI literacy relates to academic and career progression.
- Population mapping. Mapping stakeholder groups to roles and default minimum levels, and handling mixed roles and edge cases.
- Resources. Indicative time for coordinators, leaders and participants in each phase, and the minimum infrastructure.
- Adoption charter. A template that records the entry point, the roles in scope, the governance structure and the decision rights, reviewed each year.
Changes in version 2.0
Decisions about progression will have to follow the proposed rule on decisions about individuals: self-assessment results cannot be used, and levels used in such decisions must come from assessments validated for that purpose. The worked example will be rewritten as a prospective case.