01
AI-assisted
Expand strategic scenarios
Surface alternate futures, assumptions, dependencies, and second-order effects.
- Human owner
- Strategy owner
- Risk signal
- medium
- Safeguard
- Include disconfirming evidence and name unsupported assumptions.
Role 08 · Executives, business-unit leaders, and transformation owners
Leadership
Better strategic range while keeping accountability unmistakable.
Adapt this role
The redesign premise
Use AI to test assumptions, expand scenarios, and prepare decisions. Keep purpose, tradeoffs, workforce consequences, and final accountability human-led.
Four tasks to examine first.
The lane is a starting recommendation. Consequence, evidence, reversibility, and local policy can change the right design.
02
Human-led
Make consequential decisions
Choose priorities and accept the effects on customers, workers, and the business.
- Human owner
- Accountable executive
- Risk signal
- high
- Safeguard
- Document the decision, evidence, dissent, and review date.
03
AI-assisted
Prepare a decision brief
Organize evidence, options, open questions, and risks for review.
- Human owner
- Decision sponsor
- Risk signal
- medium
- Safeguard
- Trace claims and separate fact, estimate, and recommendation.
04
Human-led
Communicate workforce change
Explain why work is changing and what support, voice, and recourse people have.
- Human owner
- Named leader
- Risk signal
- high
- Safeguard
- Create a real feedback path and answer material concerns.
Skills that become more valuable
Build judgment around the tool.
- 01Decision framing
- 02Scenario challenge
- 03Accountability design
- 04Workforce communication
A responsible first pilot
Learn before you scale.
- 1Choose one business outcome rather than a tool rollout.
- 2Name an executive owner and affected worker group.
- 3Review value, risk, and employee experience together.
Measure together
- Decision quality
- Adoption
- Value realized
- Employee clarity
Ground the conversation.
Task and occupation descriptions draw on O*NET. Governance and skill guidance is informed by NIST and the U.S. Department of Labor.
O*NET Database
Occupation, task, skill, work-activity, and work-context foundations
Open source ↗U.S. Department of Labor AI Literacy Framework
Foundational AI literacy content and delivery principles
Open source ↗NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Governance, oversight, documentation, and review practices
Open source ↗