DiagnoseFramework
Rumsfeld Radar
Maps a value stream by what is known and unknown to show where knowledge is solid and where it is missing. The starting point for any work that will involve AI.
Frameworks
The tools practitioners think with.
Five frameworks on the Diagnose, Drill, Operate spine. A practitioner diagnoses before they drill, drills before they operate, and keeps doing both while operating, because the Mastery Loop never stops.
Diagnose
See where you stand.
DiagnoseFramework
AI Spectrum
The taxonomy of modes for human-AI work: five modes from AI Automated through AI Amplified, set by how much human judgment the work requires. The vocabulary practitioners use to say how AI takes part in any piece of work.
Drill
Build the capabilities under pressure.
DrillFramework
Value Flow Framework
Maps the eight wastes of Lean thinking to AI capability modes, applied to a specific value stream, in three moves: Map the stream node by node; Eliminate waste before any AI is applied; Augment each remaining node with an AI Spectrum mode. AI should not speed up waste. It should help you see it, remove it, and improve the flow of value.
- Map
- Lay out the value stream node by node.
- Eliminate
- Interrogate value and waste through the eight wastes before any AI is applied.
- Augment
- Assign an AI Spectrum mode to each remaining node, by the human judgment it requires.
Operate
Run the work. Govern the organization.
OperateFramework
The Steering Cascade
The governance structure for AI work, named Steering because the work is directional, and steering is what a discipline does. AI Artisans chair Steering Cascade reviews inside the organization.
- Grounding
- Excavate the organization’s real values and translate them into testable principles: symbiotic, sustainable, secure, safe.
- Governance
- Decision rights and the cross-functional accountability structure, seated during design, before deployment.
- Guidelines
- Principles translated into decision criteria: solution guidelines, human agency guidelines, workforce guidelines.
- Guardrails
- Limits. What production controls must accomplish. The AI Artisan owns intent; the technical team owns implementation.
OperateStructure
The Practitioner Commons
The structure for social learning inside one organization: cross-functional practitioners connected to each other, exchanging tacit knowledge as they accumulate it. Owned and run by the organization itself, with no facilitator and no vendor in the loop. What one practitioner learns becomes available to all of them fast enough to matter. It runs at 20 percent of the regimen, in a 70-20-10 proportion with game reps and film study.
- Roles
- Anyone doing the work with the Discipline is a practitioner. AI Artisan is the earned designation: the Apprenticeship, sustained participation, and peer recognition.
- The result
- We leave. The capability stays. The Commons is the structural mechanism that makes that possible.
The machine knows what was. The human imagines what could be.
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