The Six Pillars of HR AI Readiness

Each pillar contributes to your composite readiness score. Read any of them, or go straight to the assessment.

• PILLAR 01 · 15%
  HR Foundation: Is Your HR Function Ready for AI?

  AI does not rescue a shaky HR function. It amplifies whatever is already there — the good and the messy. This pillar looks at whether the basics are strong enough to build on.

• PILLAR 02 · 15%
  People Data & Analytics: The Fuel for HR AI

  Every AI conversation in HR eventually becomes a data conversation. This pillar is about whether the data estate your AI will consume is accurate, joined up and governed.

• PILLAR 03 · 15%
  AI Adoption, Value & Operations in HR

  This pillar is about how effectively your HR function adopts AI, proves its value, and operates it responsibly — not what is on a roadmap slide.

• PILLAR 04 · 20%
  Data Governance & the EU AI Act: What CPOs Must Know

  This is the pillar HR functions underestimate most, and the one carrying the heaviest weight in the Index. Employment is a named high-risk domain, which means the obligations are specific rather than aspirational.

• PILLAR 05 · 15%
  Organisation Readiness: People, Skills and Culture for AI

  Technology is the small part. This pillar covers the human conditions that decide whether anything you buy is actually used.

• PILLAR 06 · 20%
  Leadership & the CPO: Owning the HR AI Agenda

  The capstone pillar. Everything else in the Index is easier or harder depending on what the Chief People Officer personally owns.