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Stage 3 of 6

Prioritise

Prioritisation and roadmap

The question

What should we prioritise?

You arrived from the home page with this situation: “We have pilots, but we can't scale them”. Choose another situation

The problem it solves

Objective Turn the assessment into decisions and a roadmap.

Everything looks like a priority. Without a map of uses and risks, it is hard to separate what creates material exposure from what is truly worth scaling.

Questions it answers

  • What should we prioritise?
  • Which gaps are material and which risks are urgent?
  • In what order should they be resolved, and with which owners?
  • What decisions does leadership have to make?

Signs your organisation is at this stage

  • A pilot worked and scaling it raised questions that did not matter before.
  • Expectations differ between departments.

What AGORA does

  • Classifies risk by consequence for the affected person.
  • Orders findings by impact, effort and dependencies.
  • Builds the 90-day roadmap with named owners.
  • Presents the pending decisions to leadership.

Deliverables

  • Inventory of AI initiatives and uses.
  • Map of data, owners and gaps.
  • Prioritisation criteria.
  • Initial risk classification.
  • Owners and decision model.
  • Prioritised 90-day roadmap.

The 4-week assessment delivers the AI inventory, the risk map, the governance gaps, the data readiness and the 90-day roadmap. The prioritisation criteria and the decision model are defined with AI readiness and strategy, and the in-depth data map with Data and operations.

The four weeks of the assessment

  1. Week 1

    Discover

    Which AI systems are in use, who uses them and with what data. It is usually the first time the organisation sees it together.

  2. Week 2

    Map

    The state of the data feeding each case, the rules in force, ownership, and the controls that already exist.

  3. Week 3 · This stage

    Assess

    Which gaps are material, which risks are urgent, and in what order they are worth resolving.

  4. Week 4 · This stage

    Prioritise

    What to do, in what order, with which owners, and what decisions leadership has to make.

The weeks are phases of the assessment, not journey stages: weeks 1 and 2 belong to stage 02, Assess, and weeks 3 and 4 close this stage.

Who needs to take part

  • Executive sponsor
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Data
  • Risk, Legal or Compliance

The client provides access to the areas involved and decides the priorities. AGORA facilitates, documents and holds the line on method.

Indicative duration

The same 4-week assessment that starts in the previous stage: the inventory and the data map are built in weeks 1 and 2, and the prioritisation and the roadmap are closed in weeks 3 and 4.

Exit criterion

  • Leadership has a 90-day roadmap with named owners.
  • The pending decisions have been presented to leadership.

Solutions involved

Next step

See the 4-week assessment

Not a compulsory process

You do not have to go through the six stages in order, or engage work at every stage. An organisation with systems already in production can come in at Govern or Operationalise; one that is just exploring usually starts by understanding and assessing.