AI Productivity Sprint
2 to 4 weeksA sprint on a set of priority workflows for one team or function: baseline, redesign, test on live work, document, measure and hand over.
AI enablement
Redesign real workflows using AI, helping people save time, improve quality and create credible evidence of productivity gains.
AI Productivity Enablement
Most AI training shows people what the tools can do. We work on the workflows they already run: reports, analysis, planning, communications, research and review. Each workflow is redesigned with AI in the loop, tested on live work and measured against a baseline.
The result is a set of documented, governed workflows the organisation can reuse, a group of champions who can extend them, and evidence that a sponsor can put in front of a board.
Baseline
Pick a real workflow. Time it. Note the quality problems and the hand-offs.
Redesign
Rebuild it with AI in the loop: where it drafts, where it analyses, where a person checks and decides.
Test on live work
Run the redesigned workflow on this week’s real tasks, not a demo scenario.
Measure and document
Time saved, quality change, errors caught. The workflow written up so a colleague could run it.
Govern and share
Information-handling rules applied, sources checked, the workflow added to the organisation’s library.
Complimentary
A working session on one real workflow. Your team leaves with a redesigned process, a measured before-and-after, and a view of what a wider programme would deliver.
Who it suits
Learning, transformation and AI adoption leaders who need evidence before committing budget, and team leads with a workflow they are tired of.
What we need from you
Ninety minutes, four to eight people, one workflow, and access to the AI tools your organisation has approved.
Request the 90-minute challengeProgrammes
A sprint on a set of priority workflows for one team or function: baseline, redesign, test on live work, document, measure and hand over.
Develop a cohort of champions who redesign workflows in their own areas, coach colleagues and maintain the organisation’s library of governed AI workflows.
A senior team agrees where AI creates value, what the governance and information-handling rules are, and which workflows and teams go first.
Evidence the work produces
AI across the pathway
AI is not a separate module. It is a working tool at every stage, and the design of each programme changes to use it well without losing the judgement that makes the output worth having.
Aware
People decide. Participants choose the challenge. AI helps them describe it clearly.
Align
People decide. Teams check sources, decide which insights matter and own the concept they take forward.
Apply
People decide. Validation with real users stays human. AI speeds up analysis; the team judges what the evidence supports.
Deliver
People decide. Priorities, trade-offs and commitments are made by accountable people with the analysis in front of them.
Sustain
People decide. Facilitators design for the room in front of them. Leaders make portfolio decisions with AI-generated scenarios as input, not instruction.
Sixteen practical applications across the pathway
Governance
AI does not replace human judgement. These rules are what allow a sponsor to trust the output enough to act on it. In defence and government settings they extend to the specific tools, configurations and offline methods the organisation requires.
Read: AI in the innovation process, with judgement intact01
Human ownership of decisions
AI produces options, drafts and analysis. People decide, and the decision record names who.
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Source checking
Every AI-generated claim that informs a decision is checked against a source the team can cite.
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Evidence traceability
Work products in the Capability Portfolio show what came from research, what came from AI and what the team concluded.
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Appropriate information handling
Participants learn which information may be used with which tools, and how to work within their organisation’s classification and data rules.
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Bias awareness
Teams test AI output for the assumptions and gaps it carries, especially about users who are under-represented in the data.
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Ethical use
AI is used to improve the quality and speed of work for people and the public it serves, not to obscure accountability.
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Organisational security requirements
We work with approved tools and configurations, including enterprise Copilot, private deployments and offline methods where required.
Tell us about the team, the tools you have approved and the work that takes too long. We will propose the first sprint and what it should measure.