Agent readiness looks different for every organization but this framework provides principals and best practices across people, process and platform, giving you the ability to design, deploy and integrate agents effectively and at scale, relative to your enterprise objectives!
The Agent Readiness Framework, announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025, integrates both strategic vision and operational execution across 5key pillars:
- Business & AI strategy alignment: align agents to business priorities to support relevance and enable potential impact.
- Business Process Mapping: document and contextualize workflows to help agents operate within defined parameters and support business goals.
- Technology & data foundation: assess data readiness, integration patterns, and platform choices to enable agentic AI use cases
- Organization readiness & culture: reimagine team structures and invest in workforce skills to support responsible integration of agentic AI systems
- Security and Governance: establish controls and accountability to help promote safe, secure, and responsible use of agentic AI systems.
Why should you care? Organizations that self-identified as having higher agentic AI readiness reported scaling AI and agents at a 2.5x faster pace than those less prepared in the Agent Readiness survey!
Check out the eBook to learn why it’s important to:
- Strategically align agent-based projects with core business objectives
- Enhance transparency and value by mapping out business processes
- Build a secure, scalable technology and data foundation
- Prepare people, structures and culture to develop trust
- Embed responsible AI governance early to support safe adoption
Download it here:
- WHITEPAPER: Agent Readiness Framework – Pillars and Practices
https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-ai-agent-assessment.html
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