Published April 30, 2024 | Version 2.0.0
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AI Skills for Business Competency Framework

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds enormous potential for businesses, enhancing productivity and competitiveness. However, adopting AI technology can be challenging. To support the adoption of AI, we need to ensure that non-technical employees and decision-makers understand the opportunities, limitations and ethics of using AI in a business setting, rather than these being the exclusive domain of technical practitioners. To address the skills barriers limiting AI adoption in businesses, this work presents guidance, including the high-level skills and competencies employees need to support AI adoption.

This is the first of a series of products delivering a National AI Strategy commitment to “publish research into what skills are needed to enable employees to use AI in a business setting and identify how national skills provision can meet those needs”.

The development of the AI Skills for Business Competency Framework has been informed by a period of public consultation which ran between Nov ‘23 and Jan ‘24. This consultation sought to ensure that the dimensions set out in the framework accurately reflect workforce needs, and that the learner personas reflected a useful categorisation for individuals within the responding organisations. The consultation provided valuable engagement across a range of sectors and achieved positive geographic reach. Following the public consultation a revised version of the framework was developed which has received subsequent feedback from the BridgeAI Advisory Group. The version of the Framework presented here (Version 2) is the culmination of this expert engagement.

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