AI Skills for Business Competency Framework & Resources

Overview

The Innovate UK BridgeAI AI Skills for Business Competency Framework is a vital resource aimed at empowering businesses to understand the competencies required to deliver value from AI and its underpinning technologies, support them in identifying upskilling routes for their existing workforce, and develop a pipeline of higher-skilled talent.

This BridgeAI-funded project, supported by delivery partners including The Alan Turing Institute, Digital Catapult, STFC Hartree Centre, and BSI, features a framework developed by The Alan Turing Institute and is supported by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

The UK’s National AI Strategy sets out a vision to strengthen the UK’s position as an AI and science superpower over the coming decade.

A key part of this involves ensuring we build a diverse and talented workforce with the right AI skills for the future.

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”.

Who is this for?

• Employers: to better understand the AI skills and competencies that their employees need.
• Training providers: to guide the development of new training offerings to meet industry demand.

What will you gain?

The framework will support you in developing:

• A greater understanding of the competencies required to deliver value from artificial intelligence, and its underpinning technologies.
• Approaches to identifying upskilling routes for the existing workforce, and developing a pipeline of higher-skilled talent.
• Effective approaches to realise the full impact of responsible and safe AI adoption.

Find out more about the framework and additional sector-specific resources.