ai-adoption-programlisted

# AI Adoption Program The common failure is not that the tools do not work. It is that an organisation buys licences and has no mechanism by which a licence becomes a changed process. Three or four enthusiasts do genuinely impressive things and talk about them. Everyone else opens the tool twice, finds it does not fit the shape of their work, and returns to the spreadsheet. Twelve months later the only artefact is the invoice, and the honest answer to the board's question is that nobody knows. The second failure runs alongside the first and costs more. While the official programme stalls, the work continues on personal accounts, because the people under the most time pressure are the most motivated to find a shortcut. Client material, candidate records and unreleased financials go into consumer tools with no contract, no retention terms and no log. The organisation carries the risk without the benefit, and finds out during a customer's security questionnaire or during an incident. Both have the same root: adoption was treated as a purchase rather than as a programme with a sequence, a named owner, a measurement, and an explicit rule for stopping. ## When to use this, and when not to Use it when deciding what to adopt and in what order; when a policy is needed because usage is already happening; when a board, an investor or a large customer has asked what the position is; when a previous purchase visibly changed nothing and someone must explain why; or when the leadership