FRONTIER READY
Build the capability to make Microsoft AI part of how work gets done
Frontier Ready is Arinco’s tailored Microsoft AI skilling and adoption program for organisations preparing to roll out Copilot, improve adoption or progress into agents and agentic ways of working, building the practical capability needed to make AI part of everyday work.
Move from AI adoption to new ways of working
Microsoft AI creates an opportunity to rethink how work gets done across people, processes and teams. As Copilot adoption grows, organisations can move beyond individual productivity into agents, repeatable workflows and higher-value business processes.
Building the right capability, leadership alignment and governance around that shift helps AI become part of everyday work and creates a foundation for more agentic ways of operating.
What is a Frontier Firm?
Microsoft uses the term Frontier Firm to describe organisations that are reshaping how work gets done around people and AI agents. The journey progresses from AI assisting individuals, to agents working alongside teams, to agentic workflows where people set direction while AI handles more of the execution.
Becoming a Frontier Firm means redesigning work across people, processes, platforms and agents, supported by the capability, governance and technology needed to scale AI safely. Frontier Ready helps organisations build the people, adoption and ways-of-working side of that shift.
Introducing Frontier Ready
Frontier Ready is designed around your organisation’s starting point and priorities. Arinco works alongside your leaders and teams through a series of waves, progressively building capability and applying AI to increasingly real and valuable work.
The program can support the full journey or focus on the waves, teams and capabilities most relevant to your organisation.
Frontier Ready can help you
Understand where AI adoption and capability sit today.
Align leaders around your organisation’s AI direction.
Build confident, practical Microsoft AI capability.
Move from Copilot use into agents and AI-enabled workflows.
Apply AI to real roles, teams and business processes.
Track value and identify where AI can reshape how work gets done.
The Frontier Ready pathway
Frontier Ready progresses from organisational alignment and practical Microsoft AI foundations into agents, workflows and team-specific transformation.
WAVE 0
Mobilise
Understand the starting point, align leaders, define priorities and establish the program approach.
WAVE 1
Assist
Build strong foundations so people can use Microsoft AI confidently, responsibly and effectively in everyday work.
WAVE 2
Augment
Move beyond individual productivity by introducing agents, workflows and reusable AI patterns around real business needs.
WAVE 3
Agentic
Redesign roles, processes and ways of working around people and agents, with capability tailored to specific teams and functions.
What Arinco delivers in each wave
Wave 0: Mobilise
Focus
Current-state assessment and baseline, AI strategy and priority alignment, leadership alignment, program design, cohorts, communications, champions, success measures and technical readiness assessment.
What Arinco delivers
Assessment, facilitation, program design, change planning, leadership alignment and readiness recommendations.
What you bring
Strategy, organisational context, relevant data, executive sponsorship, business priorities and key stakeholders.
Wave 1: Assist
Focus
Copilot essentials, safe and responsible AI use, Microsoft 365 experiences, prompting foundations, role-relevant scenarios, hands-on application and ongoing reinforcement.
What Arinco delivers
Practical learning, coaching, reusable resources, role-based scenarios and adoption support.
What you bring
Participants, real-work examples, active leadership reinforcement and feedback on where further support is needed.
Wave 2: Augment
Focus
Simple agents, human-in-the-loop workflows, reusable prompts and templates, workflow discovery, team scenarios, practical agent building, governance and measurement.
What Arinco delivers
Agent and workflow implementation, developing practical AI solutions and reusable patterns around real business needs.
What you bring
Real workflows, subject-matter expertise, process owners and teams ready to test new approaches.
Wave 3: Agentic
Focus
Function-specific capability uplift, agentic workflows, role and process redesign, reusable agent patterns, real-work pilots, measurement and continuous improvement.
What Arinco delivers
Specialist AI Transformation and technical capability to redesign, prove and codify new ways of working alongside your teams.
What you bring
Business ownership, real use cases, domain expertise and responsibility for embedding new ways of working.
Leadership runs alongside every wave
Successful AI adoption requires leaders to understand what AI means for the organisation, align around shared priorities and actively reinforce new ways of working. Every Frontier Ready engagement includes a dedicated leadership track designed to build that alignment early and maintain it as the organisation progresses.
Copilot Take-Off
A focused leadership workshop to build a shared understanding of what Microsoft AI enables today, the shift from assistants to agents, what becoming a Frontier Firm could mean for your organisation, the opportunities and implications ahead, responsible AI and governance, priorities for the Frontier Ready program and the role leaders play in driving adoption.
Ongoing leadership support
Depending on the engagement, Arinco can also provide executive coaching, leadership-specific Copilot use cases, adoption reviews, use-case prioritisation, support communicating the AI vision and workshops focused on individual functions or business priorities.
Built from experience. Tested on ourselves.
Frontier Ready brings together approaches Arinco has used with customers and within our own organisation.
80%+
of Arinco crew reached
23%
average confidence uplift
4.4/5
average session usefulness
What our customers say
Where could Microsoft AI take your organisation next?
Whether you’re preparing for Copilot, trying to increase adoption or ready to explore agents and new ways of working, Frontier Ready can help you define and take the next practical step.
Frequently asked questions
What is Frontier Ready?
Arinco’s Frontier Ready is a tailored Microsoft AI skilling and adoption program that helps organisations increase Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, build practical AI capability and progress towards agents and agentic ways of working, with leadership alignment, change and adoption, learning, real-work application and measurement brought together in one program.
How does the Frontier Ready program work?
Frontier Ready progresses through four waves: Mobilise establishes the baseline and program approach, Assist builds practical Microsoft AI foundations, Augment introduces agents and AI-enabled workflows, and Agentic applies AI to function-specific roles, processes and ways of working. Organisations can follow the full pathway or focus on the waves most relevant to their needs.
How do you improve Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption across an organisation?
Improving Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption usually requires clear leadership direction, role-relevant use cases, practical learning, champions, ongoing reinforcement and measurement, so people can build confidence and apply Copilot consistently in their day-to-day work.
Why is Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption often uneven?
Copilot adoption often varies because employees start with different levels of confidence, capability and understanding of where AI fits, while generic training may not show people how to apply Copilot to the specific roles, workflows and tasks that matter to them.
How do you measure whether Copilot adoption is working?
Copilot adoption can be measured through active usage, repeat engagement, employee confidence and sentiment, practical application to real work, use cases progressed and customer-defined business outcomes such as time saved, improved processes or reduced effort.
What should organisations do after rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot?
After rollout, organisations should focus on building consistent capability, applying Copilot to real work, supporting champions, creating reusable prompts and workflows, measuring value and identifying where teams are ready to progress into agents and more advanced AI-enabled ways of working.
How do you move from Copilot use to AI agents and agentic workflows?
The shift from Copilot to AI agents usually starts by identifying repeatable tasks and workflows where AI can take on more of the execution, then introducing simple agents and human-in-the-loop workflows before progressing into more complex agentic processes with appropriate governance and oversight.
What role should leaders play in AI adoption?
Leaders should align around the organisation’s AI strategy and priorities, set clear expectations, model the behaviours they want to see and actively reinforce new ways of working, while using adoption and value insights to guide where to invest, scale or adjust the approach.
What governance is needed before scaling Microsoft Copilot and AI agents?
Governance for Microsoft Copilot and AI agents can include identity and access, information protection, data and content governance, security controls, responsible AI, human oversight and clear accountability, with the level of governance increasing as agents take on more complex tasks and workflows.
How do you build AI capability across different teams and roles?
Building AI capability across different teams works best when common foundations such as safe use and prompting are combined with role-specific scenarios, hands-on application, coaching and reusable resources, with the level of depth tailored to each team’s maturity and business needs.