Concepts & Frameworks

This page brings together the core concepts, frameworks, and models used across this site to understand how AI is reshaping value creation, decision-making, capability, and systems.

AI-fication is the central lens behind this work. Around it sits a broader system of concepts and frameworks designed to help leaders interpret change, make better decisions, and build capability in an AI-driven world.

Some of these are broad lenses for understanding transformation. Others are more structured tools for analysis, capability design, and strategic response.

The central lens behind this site is AI-fication, sometimes written as AIfication, supported by a broader system of concepts, frameworks, and models.

Some of these concepts are broad lenses. Others are structured frameworks designed to help analyse situations, make decisions, and build capability in an AI-driven world.

Together, they form a broader system for understanding and navigating transformation across individuals, organisations, and institutions.

Core concepts

Lenses to understand transformation

These are the main lenses used to interpret how AI is reshaping organisations, institutions, and systems.

AI-fication

A lens to understand how AI is transforming value creation, decision-making, and systems across organisations and sectors.

CDE Innovation Prism

A framework to identify recurring patterns of technological impact, distinguishing between competition, enhancement, and fundamentally new models.

AI-fication of Talents

A model to understand how capability, performance, and talent systems must evolve in an AI-driven world.

Frameworks and models

Tools to analyse and act

These are structured tools designed to move from understanding to action, helping leaders analyse situations, design capability systems, and respond more effectively.

Performance Hexagon

A model for understanding how people contribute, progress, and create value in an AI-driven world.

AI Capability Engine

A framework for building AI capability systems across individuals, organisations, and institutions.

CFTE AI Proficiency Framework

A reference framework for defining, assessing, and developing AI proficiency across the professional workforce.

SHIME

A framework defining five dimensions of capability: Soft skills, Hard skills, Industry knowledge, Mindset, and Experience.

Supercharged Professionals

A model describing individuals who use AI to multiply their impact structurally, not only to work faster.

This body of work will continue to expand as new concepts and frameworks are developed.

Closing

These concepts are interconnected. Some explain how AI creates impact. Others focus on what individuals, organisations, and institutions need to become capable of in response.

Taken together, they provide a structured system for understanding and navigating AI-driven transformation.