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Paper Nº 06

A Co-Designed Decision Checklist for Organizational AI Adoption
27/30
Score
A well-documented multi-round co-design effort with a genuinely novel importance-weighted scoring system, undermined by uncorrected internal inconsistencies (blocker items rated non-binary in the flagship use case, version-to-version blocker/point mismatches) and a validation that is entirely simulated rather than tested in a real decision.
Organizational Adoption

The Pros

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Iterative co-design is transparently documented: every transition (V0.1 to V4) has a change log (Tables 2 and 4) tying each edit to named participant sources, which is exactly what the brief asks for.
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The instrument is grounded in a prior scoping review and engages a large, multi-disciplinary panel (engineering, design, management, HR, legal), surfacing cross-occupational gaps (e.g., the domain-validation item from convergent E1/D1 critique).
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The importance-weighted 1-5 scoring with absolute blockers is a real conceptual contribution over equal-weight checklists and produces a more differentiated verdict.
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Full artefacts for every version are reproduced in the appendices, making the trajectory auditable, and a companion Implementation Guidance is referenced for actionability.
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Limitations are stated honestly: design-practitioner overrepresentation, student-heavy accessibility round, simulated (not live) use case, and temporal boundedness of the regulatory landscape.

The Cons

The flagship worked use case violates the instrument's own rules: blockers T2.2, T3.1, T3.2 are rated 3, 3, and 2, but V4 restricts [B] items to 1 or 5; T3.2 ("no written fallback plan") at "not met" should also be an active blocker yet is omitted from the active-blocker list, casting doubt on the headline 57.5/125.
Cross-version traceability of blockers is broken: the V3 decision logic lists blocker IDs (T2.3, T2.9, T3.11, T3.17) that do not correspond to V3's renumbered items (IP is T2.4, participation T3.10, fallback T3.15).
An uncorrected arithmetic note is left in the V2 decision logic ("104 = 52x2... actual 51, max 102"), signaling insufficient proofreading of the scoring spine.
The "saturation reached" claim rests on a single Round 3 conducted with a different, cross-sector panel; one no-change round with a new composition is weak evidence for saturation.
The weight ratios (x1/x0.5/x0.25) and the Critical/High/Medium item assignments are asserted without justification or sensitivity analysis, so the verdict's dependence on these choices is untested.
The use case is fully simulated with author-assigned ratings; predictive validity is untested, so the "more conservative than narrative analysis" claim is not empirically supported.
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