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AI Adoption Roadmap
A fixed-price roadmap built around your objectives. Turn assessment findings into a prioritised, phased 90-day and 12-month plan covering use cases, change and governance.
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Assessment
Most leaders know they need to move on AI. Far fewer know whether their organisation is actually ready. Find out in under five minutes.
14 questions · ~5 minutes · Free · No obligation
Your results
What you'll learn
01
Your maturity level
See exactly where you sit on the Nascent → Emerging → Developing → Advanced maturity scale — and what that means in practice for your organisation.
02
Your six-dimension breakdown
A scored view across strategy, data, technology, governance, skills, culture and systems integration — so you know which foundations are strong and which need work.
03
Where to focus first
Tailored recommendations for your three lowest-scoring dimensions, with specific guidance on the highest-impact actions to take next.
The framework
The seven dimensions of AI readiness
The assessment is built on the same framework used across Aphelion's client engagements — seven dimensions that together determine whether an organisation can adopt AI and sustain the value it creates.
Strategy & Leadership
AI creates value only when leadership sets clear direction. This dimension assesses whether your organisation has a sponsored, use-case-driven AI strategy — or whether activity is still fragmented and exploratory.
Data Readiness
AI is only as good as the data beneath it. This dimension covers the accessibility, quality and governance of your data — the foundations without which AI outputs are unreliable and adoption stalls.
Technology & Infrastructure
Most AI initiatives fail between pilot and production. This dimension assesses whether your platforms, integrations and deployment capability can take AI from experiment to operational, scaled reality.
Governance & Risk
Responsible AI isn't a constraint — it's a confidence enabler. This dimension examines whether you have the policies, oversight and risk management in place for ethical, compliant and secure AI use.
Skills & Capability
Tools sit unused when people lack confidence or competence. This dimension looks at AI literacy, specialist capability and the learning infrastructure that converts tool access into productive, everyday use.
Culture & Adoption
Adoption is fundamentally a human behaviour change — not a technical event. This dimension assesses leadership sponsorship, openness to change and the change management maturity that determines whether AI actually lands.
Systems & Integration
AI tools need data — and that data often lives in systems that can't share it. This dimension assesses whether your technology estate exposes APIs, whether data can flow between systems AI needs to query, and whether your architecture can support AI agents taking autonomous actions.
Why Aphelion
Built on real-world engagement experience
The assessment isn't a generic checklist — it's built on the same diagnostic framework Aphelion uses in client engagements. Every dimension reflects a real barrier we've seen organisations hit on their path from AI ambition to AI adoption.
We came at AI from the opposite direction — adoption first. That discipline is exactly what AI now demands: deep expertise not just in deployment, but in the human, governance and capability conditions that make deployment stick.
- Technology-agnostic — we work across platforms and vendors
- 15+ years of complex change and transformation programmes
- 87% average adoption rate across AI and digital programmes
- Sector experience spanning financial services, healthcare, energy and retail
Questions
Common questions
About four to five minutes — twelve questions across six dimensions, each answered on a four-point scale. No lengthy text inputs, no pre-reading required.
Yes, completely. You receive your maturity score, a full dimension breakdown and tailored recommendations at no cost. We also email you a copy you can share with your leadership team — no obligation to engage Aphelion.
An overall readiness level — Nascent, Emerging, Developing, or Advanced — with an explanation of what that means for your organisation. Plus a scored breakdown across all six dimensions and tailored recommendations for your three areas of greatest opportunity.
We use your details only to send your report and occasional thinking on AI adoption. You can unsubscribe at any time. We do not share your data with third parties or use it for any purpose beyond the above.
Most organisations use their results as the starting point for a structured AI Adoption Roadmap — turning the diagnostic findings into a prioritised, phased plan with clear ownership and sequencing. It's the natural next step from "knowing" to "doing".
Next step
Want this turned into a plan?
Your assessment results are a powerful starting point. The AI Adoption Roadmap turns those findings into a prioritised, phased plan — with clear use cases, a 90-day sprint and a 12-month roadmap.
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