Ready or not, AI comes—an interview study of organizational AI readiness factors
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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers organizations much potential. Considering the manifold application areas, AI’s inherent complexity, and new organizational necessities, companies encounter pitfalls when adopting AI. An informed decision regarding an organization’s readiness increases the probability of successful AI adoption and is important to successfully leverage AI’s business value. Thus, companies need to assess whether their assets, capabilities, and commitment are ready for the individual AI adoption purpose. Research on AI readiness and AI adoption is still in its infancy. Consequently, researchers and practitioners lack guidance on the adoption of AI. The paper presents five categories of AI readiness factors and their illustrative actionable indicators. The AI readiness factors are deduced from an in-depth interview study with 25 AI experts and triangulated with both scientific and practitioner literature. Thus, the paper provides a sound set of organizational AI readiness factors, derives corresponding indicators for AI readiness assessments, and discusses the general implications for AI adoption. This is a first step toward conceptualizing relevant organizational AI readiness factors and guiding purposeful decisions in the entire AI adoption process for both research and practice.
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TL;DR
This paper conceptualizes organizational AI readiness through an interview study with 25 AI experts, yielding five categories, 18 readiness factors, and 58 illustrative indicators. It argues that AI readiness is not merely a precursor to AI adoption but an integral, context- and purpose-specific element that mutually reinforces adoption across the process.
Key findings
- The study identifies five AI readiness categories: strategic alignment, resources, knowledge, culture, and data, comprising 18 factors and 58 illustrative indicators.
- Strategic alignment includes AI-business potentials, customer AI readiness, top management support, AI-process fit, and data-driven decision-making; resources include financial budget, personnel, and IT infrastructure; knowledge includes AI awareness, upskilling, and AI ethics; culture includes innovativeness, collaborative work, and change management; data includes data availability, data quality, data accessibility, and data flow.
- The authors argue that AI readiness and AI adoption are distinct yet highly interdependent and mutually reinforcing, requiring continuous assessment rather than a one-time readiness check.
- AI’s nature as a general-purpose technology means readiness must be both context-specific and purpose-specific, depending on the organization’s intended AI adoption purpose.
Methods
- Qualitative in-depth interview study with 25 AI experts (E01–E25), sampled purposively from the authors’ professional network; data collection stopped after 25 interviews because no significant new topics emerged.
- Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed from 1,385 interview minutes; analysis used open and axial coding in MAXQDA, with coding rounds producing 492 codes in 6 categories, then 895 codes in 39 categories and 87 subcategories, then 35 AI readiness factors in 12 categories, narrowed to 23 organizational factors in 8 categories, and finally 18 factors in 5 categories.
- Findings were triangulated with scientific and practitioner literature, and indicators were developed and validated through a card-sorting procedure in an AI-related researchers’ focus group.
Limitations
- The paper states that the purposive cross-industry interview sample primarily reflects the perspectives of experts in management positions; future research could sample across job levels and use in-depth case studies.
- The paper states that it does not elucidate prioritization or weighting of factors and indicators relative to overarching AI adoption purpose and organizational contingencies; future work should validate the factors and indicators and examine how they influence AI adoption success.
- The paper states that comparing organizational readiness factors across multiple technologies lies beyond its scope; an evident limitation is that the 58 indicators are self-developed and presented as a starting point for future validation rather than as empirically validated assessment scales.
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Narrowing the focus on organizational factors in the TOE framework resulted in 23 organizational AI readiness factors in 8 categories.
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AI readiness factors are structured in five categories that specify action fields and necessary conditions for successful AI adoption.
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The study compiled five categories-strategic alignment, resources, knowledge, culture, and data-with 18 factors specifying distinct action fields of organizational AI readiness.
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Axial coding resulted in 35 AI readiness factors in 12 categories.
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Considering the wide range of organizational necessities associated with AI adoption, top management support is crucial for successful AI adoption.
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Interviewees have particularly identified business analysts and AI specialists as relevant human resources.
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The new AI-specific readiness factors include factors of the data category and AI ethics.
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The paper shows that readiness is an integral element throughout the entire adoption process instead of a precursor condition.
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Interview experts point out that different data types influence AI readiness.
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The paper's results yield new AI-specific readiness factors that emerge from AI's distinct features.
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The paper empirically conceptualizes AI readiness and its roles for successful AI adoption.
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Based on AI's underlying technological characteristics and the arising organizational necessities for successful AI adoption, the paper derived 18 AI readiness factors in five categories that conceptualize AI readiness.
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The paper combined insights from interviews with 25 AI experts with findings from scientific and practitioner literature to compile 18 AI readiness factors and 58 illustrative indicators in five categories.
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The study collected data from 25 AI experts to conceptualize relevant factors for an organization's AI readiness assessment.
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The study deduced AI readiness factors from both literature and interviews with 25 AI experts.
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Participants contribute perspectives from different organizational contexts (e.g., AI adoption stage, AI users and providers, industry, and company size).
“Our participants contribute perspectives from different organizational contexts (e.g., AI adoption stage, AI users and providers, industry, and company size; see Table 3 in Appendix II).”
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Adoption of AI poses challenges on organizational, technical, and individual levels.
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Organizations focus on developing three underlying IT infrastructure capabilities for AI: data storage capabilities, networking capabilities, and scalable computing power capabilities.
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AI awareness allows employees to see AI as a versatile tool and its application potential in their specific context or industry.
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Customers who lack knowledge and acceptance build expectations toward AI that cannot be met, leading to frustration when using AI-integrated offerings.
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Change management helps employees to understand and cope with AI-induced organizational change.
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As a consequence of building AI awareness, employees gain adequate expectations toward AI.
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Upskilling develops interdisciplinary skillsets that are necessary for the successful implementation of AI projects.
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Since the AI application lifecycle comprises tailoring AI systems toward an organization's unique context and data, adopting AI is time and cost-intensive.
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Innovative behavior with a general-purpose technology such as AI requires employees to initiate change at a rapid pace and in many areas so that organizations can realize AI's full potential.
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Structured data, stored in two-dimensional relational tables, is easier to utilize for standardized AI applications.
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Organizations' adoption purposes may vary over time.
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AI adoption often follows cycles of exploring and piloting individual use cases, gradually expanding across companies' processes and departments.
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The readiness concept is often limited to being a sequential precursor to the broader adoption concept.
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AI as a GPT demands a new understanding of the readiness and adoption concept that is both context- and purpose-specific.
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The emerging literature on AI adoption and readiness lacks a thorough discussion of how the two concepts go hand in hand when companies seek to benefit from AI's potentials.
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AI requires taking a context-specific perspective on the AI readiness factors.
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AI adoption and readiness mutually reinforce (or restrict) one another.
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AI readiness becomes a permanent yet fluid issue for companies instead of a one-time consideration because AI readiness requirements may vary with the intended use of AI's potentials and experience from prior cycles.
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Literature commonly describes adoption and readiness only as two vaguely related concepts.
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Literature has failed to take an integrative stance on readiness and adoption.
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Integrative work to unveil the interdependencies between adoption and readiness is rare.
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AI readiness with its 18 factors is not a mere precursor condition but a foundation and integral element throughout the entire AI adoption process.
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It is not sufficient to establish readiness once before technology adoption because both concepts are highly interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
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The results primarily reflect the perspectives of experts in management positions due to the purposive cross-industry interview sample.
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Findingown dataAfter consolidating the coding set, the study derived 895 codes in 39 categories and 87 subcategories.
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Findingown dataThe first coding round resulted in six broad categories related to AI readiness and a total of 492 codes.
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Findingown dataThe final compilation is 18 AI readiness factors and 58 illustrative indicators.
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Findingnone givenAn organization can only commit to AI adoption once the top management provides an organization-wide signal.
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Findingown dataThe results confirm the relevance of top management support and collaboration for AI adoption.
“For instance, our results confirm the relevance of the well-known adoption factors top management support (Sharma and Yetton 2003) and collaboration (Dewi and Ahamat 2018) for AI adoption.”
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FindingreasoningWith illustrative indicators, the paper provides a starting point for distinct action fields for developing AI readiness.
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FindingreasoningThe paper corroborates existing factors but also provides additional factors accounting for AI's specifics.
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FindingreasoningBy conceptualizing organizational AI readiness, the paper provides relevant factors and indicators to better understand and assess what measures organizations require for successful AI adoption.
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Findingown dataThe interviews corroborate readiness factors that are comparable to adopting any other technology and are also relevant for AI adoption.
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Findingown dataGiven the results, AI readiness is conceptualized as twofold: 18 readiness factors along five categories, and the understanding of purposeful AI adoption.
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Findingown dataThe paper provides additional empirical groundwork for theorizing on readiness and adoption.
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FindingreasoningThe paper's results serve as the descriptive groundwork for further research on AI management in organizations, organizational readiness, and technology adoption.
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Findingnone givenThe findings explicate the need for context-specific considerations for organizational readiness by referring to AI's characteristics.
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Findingown dataThe paper provided a thorough conceptualization of organizational AI readiness.
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Study design and conductown dataThe study used feedback from a focus group to further trim and restructure the results.
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Study design and conductcitationThe study used a qualitative research approach to understand AI readiness factors.
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PremisecitationReadiness models require context-specific consideration and need to be tailored to the related domain, i.e. a specific technology.
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PremisecitationAI is a general-purpose technology with a unique learning capability that provides organizations with potentials for wide-ranging improvements and new business opportunities.
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Study design and conductown dataData collection stopped after 25 interviews because no significant new topics were brought up and the emerging factors were increasingly repetitive.
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Study design and conductown dataThe study operationalized these factors with 58 illustrative indicators and evaluated results via a card-sorting procedure in an AI-related researchers' focus group.
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Study design and conductown dataThe study recorded, transcribed, and analyzed 1385 interview minutes with the experts' consent.
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Study design and conductcitationThe study used AI-related literature and practitioner studies to triangulate the conceptualization of AI readiness factors.
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PremisecitationOrganizational readiness for change theory postulates that a higher level of organizational readiness increases the success of innovation adoption and decreases the risk of failure.
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PremisecitationDue to AI's nature as a GPT, possible application scenarios are not always directly obvious and organizations must understand the technology to decide on intended adoption purpose.
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PremisecitationAI adoption implies a high implementation complexity which differentiates it from other digital technologies that are typically easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy.
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InterpretationreasoningAI adoption demands a thorough understanding of relevant AI readiness factors, an operationalized readiness assessment, and a tailored match between an organization's current AI readiness and the aspired AI adoption purpose.
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PremisecitationBeing a GPT, AI drives changes at task, process, and business model level in many application areas and offers competitive advantage to organizations.
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Study design and conductcitationThe study used open and axial coding to deduce AI readiness factors from interview data and triangulated the conceptualization with readiness and adoption literature and practitioner studies.
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Study design and conductcitationThe study used purposive sampling to identify 25 AI experts from the professional network considered key informants regarding digital transformation and adoption of emerging technologies such as AI in their organizations.
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Premisenone givenChanges accompanying AI adoption always affect an organization's processes.
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PremisecitationAI-process fit reflects an organization's compatibility regarding AI and is facilitated by a mature process landscape, i.e. standardized and structured processes.
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InterpretationcitationOrganizations need to prepare customers by forming adequate expectations, because customers build acceptance through perceived usefulness.
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PremisecitationOwing to a shortage of skilled AI specialists in the labor market, it becomes obligatory for organizations to invest in upskilling employees' capabilities.
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PremisecitationAI-business potentials describe an organization's fit and compatibility toward AI innovations.
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Premisenone givenTop management support describes the willingness to commence AI initiatives top-down and to signal support for bottom-up initiatives.
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PremisecitationInnovative behavior includes experimentation, risk-taking, and diverse problem-solving skills.
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Premisenone givenAI ethics includes novel methods to prevent unethical AI outcomes which can be a result of biased learning or input data.
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PremisecitationGender bias in data sets for AI hiring tools can result in biased candidate selection.
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PremisecitationData-driven decision-making not only leads to performance improvements in organizations but also increases AI readiness as it represents the preliminary practice for AI-driven decision making.
“DDDM not only leads to performance improvements in organizations but also increases AI readiness as it represents the preliminary practice for AI-driven decision making (Colson 2019;Iansiti and Lakhani 2020;Microsoft 2020).”
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PremisecitationCustomer AI readiness describes the knowledge and acceptance of customers toward using AI-integrated offerings.
“Customer AI readiness describes the knowledge and acceptance of customers toward using AI-integrated offerings (Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationSince large organizations tend to rely too much on the status quo, innovative behavior should be particularly encouraged.
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PremisecitationThe IT infrastructure must be modular to facilitate the integration of new AI applications and have a high capacity for AI-related data-intensive training and testing procedures.
“The IT infrastructure must be modular to facilitate the integration of new AI applications and have a high capacity for AI-related data-intensive training and testing procedures (Catalyst Fund 2020; Groopman 2018).”
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PremisecitationEmployees recognize the importance of high-quality input as a prerequisite for high-quality AI outcome.
“For instance, employees recognize the importance of high-quality input as a prerequisite for high-quality AI outcome (Agrawal et al. 2018).”
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PremisecitationCollaborative work describes the degree to which domain experts, AI specialists, and IT departments actively communicate and work together in cross-functional teams.
“Collaborative work describes the degree to which domain experts, AI specialists, and IT departments actively communicate and work together in cross-functional teams (Davenport 2018;Fountaine et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationcitationTo increase AI readiness, organizations need to establish new measures and protocols to prevent discrimination and mitigate risks for liability.
“To increase AI readiness, organizations need to establish new measures and protocols to prevent discrimination and therefore mitigate risks for liability (Agrawal et al. 2018;Groopman 2018).”
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PremisecitationChange management is important to reduce misconceptions regarding AI in terms of fear of possible job loss.
“Particularly, change management is important to reduce misconceptions regarding AI in terms of fear of possible job loss (Fountaine et al. 2019).”
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Interpretationnone givenOwing to AI's inherent complexity, AI-based systems often lack transparency, which hinders customers to accept those offerings.
“Owing to AI's inherent complexity, AI-based systems often lack transparency, which hinders customers to accept those offerings.”
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PremisecitationAI specialists have dedicated AI-related skills (e.g., data scientists) and can develop AI solutions based on self-build and pre-built models.
“In turn, AI specialists have dedicated AI-related skills (e.g., data scientists) and can develop AI solutions based on self-build and pre-built models (Catalyst Fund 2020).”
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PremisecitationIn the context of AI, collaborative work is crucial to overcome siloed work and to identify new use cases that are beneficial to the organization.
“In the context of AI, collaborative work is crucial to overcome siloed work and to identify new use cases that are beneficial to the organization (Fountaine et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationInnovativeness is based on the amount and pace of adaptability that organizational members possess.
“Innovativeness is based on the amount and pace of adaptability that organizational members possess (Kruse et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationBusiness analysts can facilitate use case discovery and act as translators between business functions and AI specialists.
“Therefore, they can facilitate use case discovery and act as translators between business functions and AI specialists (Fountaine et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationEmployees need AI awareness, i.e. an abstract understanding of cognitive AI functions like perceiving, predicting, or generating.
“Employees need AI awareness, i.e. an abstract understanding of cognitive AI functions like perceiving, predicting, or generating (Hofmann et al. 2020).”
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PremisecitationIn case of not being ethically ready, organizations might blindly rely on biased AI outcomes and be held liable for discrimination even if unintentional.
“In case of not being ethically ready, organizations might blindly rely on biased AI outcomes and be held liable for discrimination even if unintentional (Agrawal et al. 2018;Dattner et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationBusiness analysts have an abstract understanding of AI capabilities as well as domain know-how.
“Business analysts have an abstract understanding of AI capabilities (Bawack et al. 2019) as well as domain know-how.”
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PremisecitationAI adoption requires organizations to invest in building know-how and overcome initial uncertainty about AI capabilities and their value.
“Besides, AI adoption requires organizations to invest in building know-how and overcome initial uncertainty about AI capabilities and their value (Alsheibani et al. 2019).”
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PremisereasoningAI-process fit describes the necessary linkage between an organization's AI strategy and its processes to increase AI readiness.
“AI-process fit describes the necessary linkage between an organization's AI strategy and its processes to increase AI readiness.”
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InterpretationcitationAI readiness requires awareness of appropriate use cases for either solving an organizational problem or addressing new opportunities.
“Specifically, AI readiness requires awareness of appropriate use cases for either solving an organizational problem or addressing new opportunities (Hofmann et al. 2020;Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationcitationCompanies must examine AI-based systems for their relative advantage over other solutions.
“Additionally, companies must examine AI-based systems for their relative advantage over other solutions (Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationUpskilling comprises equipping employees with AI-related know-how such as statistics, data management, data analytics, or data engineering, and domain know-how.
“This comprises equipping employees with AI-related know-how such as statistics, data management, data analytics, or data engineering on the one hand, but also with domain know-how on the other hand (Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationreasoningLike customers, employees must be made aware of AI benefits through change management to increase acceptance.
“Like customers, employees must be made aware of AI benefits through change management to increase acceptance.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe concepts of readiness and adoption need to be discussed in conjunction but as distinct concepts that each offers a valuable lens on intended technology use in organizations.
“In contrast, the concepts of readiness and adoption need to be discussed in conjunction but as distinct concepts that each offers a valuable lens on (intended) technology use in organizations.”
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InterpretationcitationThe holistic nature of the paper's categories, factors, and illustrative indicators may serve as a blueprint for deriving relevant organizational readiness factors for other digital technologies and elaborating on the interdependencies between their respective adoption purpose and success.
“The holistic nature of our categories, factors, and illustrative indicators may also serve as a blueprint for deriving relevant organizational readiness factors for other (digital) technologies and elaborating on the interdependencies between their respective adoption purpose and success (Lokuge et al. 2018).”
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InterpretationreasoningAI implies a purpose-specific consideration owing to AI's nature as a GPT that offers a broad variety of application scenarios.
“Additionally, we argue that AI implies a purpose-specific consideration owing to AI's nature as a GPT that offers a broad variety of application scenarios.”
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Interpretationown dataSuccessful AI adoption requires both understanding and managing AI readiness.
“Our interviews emphasize that successful AI adoption requires both understanding and managing AI readiness.”
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PremisecitationUnstructured data, such as audio, video, or image files, is utilized in more advanced AI applications like object recognition.
“On the other hand, unstructured data, such as audio, video, or image files (Groopman 2018), is utilized in more advanced AI applications like object recognition.”
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InterpretationreasoningWith changing context and adoption purposes, AI readiness requires perpetual consideration.
“Hence, with changing context and adoption purposes, AI readiness requires perpetual consideration.”
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PremisecitationSince organizations often face data quality issues with historical data, they need to improve on universal capabilities like data preparation, data processing, and data quality assurance to increase data readiness.
“Since organizations often face data quality issues with historical data, they need to improve on universal capabilities like data preparation, data processing, and data quality assurance to increase data readiness (Groopman 2018;Iansiti and Lakhani 2020;Kruse et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationcitationAI readiness must be an integral part of companies' decisions across the entire adoption process to guide investments, prioritization, and resource allocation.
“Given AI's inherent complexity and the arising new organizational necessities, AI readiness must be an integral part of companies' decisions across the entire adoption process to guide investments, prioritization, and resource allocation (Baier et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationcitationUnderstanding and assessing AI readiness is an important means to purposefully adapt the organizational chassis for successful AI adoption.
“Consequently, understanding and assessing AI readiness is an important means to purposefully adapt the organizational chassis for successful AI adoption (Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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PremisecitationCompanies face several difficulties during AI adoption, for instance, the identification of suitable use cases to utilize AI's potentials.
“Companies face several difficulties during AI adoption, for instance, the identification of suitable use cases to utilize AI's potentials (Hofmann et al. 2020).”
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InterpretationreasoningResearch into AI readiness can help to alleviate the difficulties with AI adoption and propose suitable adaptations to the organizational chassis as prescriptive guidance.
“Thus, research into AI readiness can help to alleviate the difficulties with AI adoption and propose suitable adaptations to the organizational chassis as prescriptive guidance.”
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PremisecitationAI-based systems do not necessarily replace job profiles as a whole, but rather take over repetitive tasks or individual process steps.
“This is especially important considering that AI-based systems do not necessarily replace job profiles as a whole, but rather take over repetitive tasks or individual process steps (Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2017).”
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InterpretationreasoningAI requires a more thorough and integrated understanding of readiness and adoption because it offers a broad variety of application scenarios.
“Thus, AI requires a more thorough and integrated understanding of readiness and adoption because it offers a broad variety of application scenarios.”
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Interpretationnone givenAI poses different opportunities and challenges compared to other technologies owing to its nature as GPT.
“We posit that AI poses different opportunities and challenges compared to other technologies owing to its nature as GPT.”
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PremisecitationData availability comprises the relevant amount and types of data which are both necessary for AI models to be trained and to generate accurate predictions.
“Data availability comprises the relevant amount and types of data which are both necessary for AI models to be trained and to generate accurate predictions (Agrawal et al. 2018;Kruse et al. 2019).”
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InterpretationreasoningAssessing AI readiness exposes action fields for AI adoption stemming from both AI's context and purpose specifics.
“Further, we argue that assessing AI readiness exposes action fields for AI adoption stemming from both AI's context and purpose specifics.”
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InterpretationreasoningAI adoption requires a continuous assessment of the AI readiness factors based on the intended adoption purpose.
“Likewise, AI adoption requires a continuous assessment of the AI readiness factors based on the intended adoption purpose.”
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InterpretationreasoningAI readiness requires both context- and purpose-specific consideration.
“Thus, we argue that while we draw on our existing understanding of the two concepts, AI readiness requires both context-and purpose-specific consideration.”
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PremisecitationImproving on data quality dimensions increases AI readiness as AI models need to be trained with high-quality data to generate good results.
“Improving on these quality dimensions increases AI readiness as AImodels need to be trained with high-quality data to generate good results (Davenport 2018;Pumplun et al. 2019).”
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Premisenone givenAI poses challenges and opportunities that differentiate it from other technologies.
“AI poses challenges and opportunities that differentiate it from other technologies (see Sect. 2.3 for further details).”
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PremisecitationAI-relevant data quality dimensions include completeness and correctness.
“AI-relevant data quality dimensions include, for instance, completeness and correctness (Sidi et al. 2012).”
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InterpretationcitationAI readiness is a valuable concept to account for the technology and context specifics of readiness.
“Further, drawing on the literature on organizational readiness for change and technology adoption, we argue that AI readiness is a valuable concept to account for the technology and context specifics of readiness (Lokuge et al. 2018).”
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InterpretationreasoningAI adoption and readiness are distinct yet highly interdependent.
“First, AI adoption and readiness are distinct yet highly interdependent.”
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Interpretationnone givenBoth AI readiness and AI adoption foster and necessitate each other, leading to a mutually reinforcing and highly intertwined nature.
“Both concepts foster and necessitate each other which leads to a mutually reinforcing and highly intertwined nature.”
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InterpretationreasoningOrganizations must continuously assess and develop their AI readiness in the AI adoption process.
“Further, we discussed that organizations must continuously assess and develop their AI readiness in the AI adoption process and described relevant aspects to consider.”
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Study design and conductnone givenThe paper does not elucidate the factors' and indicators' prioritization and weighting concerning the overarching AI adoption purpose and specific organizational contingencies.
“However, we do not elucidate the factors' and indicators' prioritization and weighting concerning the overarching AI adoption purpose and specific organizational contingencies.”
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InterpretationreasoningRelevant aspects to consider include AI's nature as a GPT, the context- and purpose-specifics, and the mutually reinforcing interplay of AI readiness and AI adoption.
“This includes AI's nature as a GPT, the context-and purposespecifics, and the mutually reinforcing interplay of AI readiness and AI adoption.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe paper's results assist organizations in managing the AI adoption process and guide AI investments, resource allocation, and prioritization.
“Thus, our results assist organizations in managing the AI adoption process and guide AI investments, resource allocation, and prioritization.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe paper proposes AI readiness factors and acknowledges that synergies concerning the readiness for other digital technologies may exist.
“While we propose AI readiness factors, we also acknowledge that synergies concerning the readiness for other (digital) technologies may exist.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe AI readiness factors provide comprehensive guidance to decision-makers on relevant managerial action fields.
“The AI readiness factors provide comprehensive guidance to decision-makers on relevant managerial action fields.”
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There is no structured conceptualization of readiness for technology on the organizational perspective.
“However, to the best of our knowledge, there is so far no structured conceptualization of readiness for technology on the organizational perspective.”
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Research remains vague as to where organizations should address AI-specific factors in the adoption process and what implications arise for continued use.
“Further, research remains vague as to where organizations should address these AI-specific factors in the adoption process and what implications arise for the continued use.”
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It is unclear which factors are relevant for the organizational adoption challenges.
“However, it is unclear which factors are relevant for the organizational adoption challenges.”
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AI is a general-purpose technology (GPT) with a broad variety of application scenarios.
“However, owing to AI's characteristics as GPT, AI adoption differentiates from previously discussed technology adoption.”
“Considering AI's nature as a GPT, we posit two important perspectives on the AI readiness factors.”
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The TOE framework is an established construct of organizational adoption literature suitable for conceptualizing AI readiness from an organizational perspective.
“We build on the TOE framework, an established construct of organizational adoption literature, to conceptualize AI readiness from an organizational perspective.”
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The interview sample of 25 AI experts is sufficient to identify and conceptualize organizational AI readiness factors.
“We combined insights from interviews with 25 AI experts with findings from scientific and practitioner literature to compile 18 AI readiness factors and 58 illustrative indicators in five categories.”
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Those who have a higher theoretical and practical understanding of AI are more ready to use it and have a more positive attitude toward it.
“Those who have a higher theoretical and practical understanding of AI are more ready to use it and have a more positive attitude toward it (Jöhnk, et al., 2021).”
From Into the Unknown: AI Adoption and Job Satisfaction of Christian Faculty (2026) · cites this paper as Jöhnk, et al., 2021
The Knowledge discussion (section 4.3; page unavailable in our copy) says AI awareness helps employees understand AI’s applications and form adequate expectations. The change-management discussion says explaining AI’s benefits can increase employee acceptance. But the paper addresses organizational readiness; it does not establish that people with greater theoretical and practical understanding are individually more ready to use AI or have more positive attitudes than others. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredAI is a general-purpose technology with high implementation complexity, which differentiates it from other digital technologies that are typically easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy.
“Compared to other IT innovations, AI is a general-purpose technology with 'high implementation complexity [. . .] which differentiates it from other digital technologies that are typically easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy' (Jöhnk, Weißert, and Wyrtki 2021, 6), such as social media use (Mergel and Bretschneider 2015).”
From Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study (2024) · cites this paper as Jöhnk, Weißert, and Wyrtki 2021
The expense of implementing AI is an important factor influencing attitudes.
“Another important factor influencing attitudes is the expense of implementing AI (Jöhnk et al., 2021).”
From Exploring the antecedents of AI adoption for effective HRM practices in the Indian pharmaceutical sector (2023) · cites this paper as Jöhnk et al., 2021
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- Authors
- Jöhnk, J., Weißert, M., & Wyrtki, K.
- Affiliations
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (DE)
- University of Bayreuth (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Jöhnk, Jan
- Weißert, Malte
- Wyrtki, Katrin
- Venue
- Business & Information Systems Engineering
- Published
- 2020-12-22
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-20
- ISSN
- 1867-0202 (ISSN-L)
- 2363-7005
- OpenAlex
- W3100511078
- Cited by
- 637
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 233 · 2025: 155 · 2024: 114 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 13.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Business & Information Systems Engineering (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems (submittedVersion)
- Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- ERef Bayreuth (University of Bayreuth) (submittedVersion)
- Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Technology Governance and Strategy
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence adoption, AI readiness assessment, organizational capabilities
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