Practical tools for boards and leadership teams
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Recognise the issue. Assess where you stand. Decide what to improve.
These checklists and question sets help you put words to concerns about governance, strategy and execution. Use them to start a self assessment, compare views with your colleagues and identify a practical next step.
Governance
Clarify who can decide, who is accountable and what support people need before taking on new responsibilities.
Are decision rights clear?
For boards and executive teams dealing with delayed decisions, repeated approvals or unclear authority.
What it helps you do: identify where shareholder, board and management responsibilities overlap, then write a clear decision path for one recurring issue.
Start here if: the same decision keeps returning to meetings without being resolved.
Request this resourceNext generation readiness scorecard
For family groups preparing a family member for a defined board or management role.
What it helps you do: distinguish intention from demonstrated readiness, identify experience and development gaps, and agree a gradual transfer of responsibilities.
Start here if: the next generation is ready to contribute but their role, authority or preparation is still unclear.
Request this resourceStrategy and execution
Test whether approved priorities are reaching the operating level, and identify what is slowing delivery, adoption or business results.
Is your transformation losing momentum?
For programme sponsors who see plenty of activity but little visible change in the business.
What it helps you do: recognise early signs of delay, weak decisions, overloaded teams or poor adoption, then choose a targeted response or a fuller review.
Start here if: reports look reassuring but operational experience tells a different story.
Request this resourceStalled programme self diagnostic
For sponsors and delivery leads who need a deeper view of a programme that has lost momentum.
What it helps you do: assess priorities, ownership, reporting, dependencies and benefits; compare answers; and identify the decisions needed before committing more money.
Start here if: you need to decide what should continue, change, pause or stop.
Request this resourceTechnology and AI oversight
Ask clear questions about business value, accountability, information use, cybersecurity and the role of people before an AI programme expands.
AI governance in the GCC
For boards and executive teams who want to understand AI accountability, data safeguards and oversight across the GCC.
What it helps you do: review country summaries and regulatory signals, then identify practical questions and actions for your board.
Start here if: you need a regional overview before discussing an AI proposal or reviewing your organisation’s approach.
Available in English and Arabic. General information, not legal advice.
Questions before approving an AI programme
For boards and executives receiving an AI proposal for the first time.
What it helps you do: establish the purpose, owner, limits, cost and review conditions, including the effect on existing systems and employee training.
Start here if: you want to know what management should explain before you approve a pilot.
Request this resourceAI oversight questions for boards
For boards and committees reviewing a specific AI use case before approval or expansion.
What it helps you do: request evidence on value, ownership, data, human control, cybersecurity and continuity, then record conditions and open questions.
Start here if: the proposal involves sensitive information, autonomous actions or important business processes.
Request this resourceUse the tools to start a useful conversation
- Choose the resource that matches the issue you are seeing.
- Answer from evidence, not from what is planned or assumed.
- Compare answers with the people responsible for the work.
- Choose one or two changes, with an owner and a review date.
The resources help you recognise and describe an issue. They do not replace professional judgement, an audit or advice on your specific situation. A score is a starting point for discussion, not a verdict.
Your completed assessment stays with you. You do not need to send us confidential business information to use these tools.
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