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# AI adoption goals

Track and achieve **AI adoption goals** by measuring AI usage against defined targets.

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Nexthink **AI adoption goals** enables you to:

* Define an adoption goal, company-wide or for a specific team or tool.
* Track adoption progress across the organization in real time, in one place, instead of stitching together data from multiple tool consoles and spreadsheets.
* Catch goals falling behind early enough to act, rather than finding out at the end of a reporting period. Identify teams or adoption initiatives that require attention.

{% hint style="warning" %}
If **AI adoption goals** shows missing or incomplete data, your Nexthink administrator should verify and validate [AI Tools requirements](/user-guide/ai-tools/setting-up-and-managing-ai-tools.md#before-you-begin).
{% endhint %}

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## Accessing AI adoption goals

Select **AI Tools > AI adoption goals** from the navigation panel.

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## Creating AI adoption goals

From the **New goal** configuration popup:

1. Click the **New goal** button from the **Goals** panel.
2. Determine path: **Start from scratch** to define every goal setting yourself, or choose existing configuration templates.

<details>

<summary>Goal configuration templates</summary>

When configuring new goals, you may use existing configuration templates.

| Template                                      | Best for                                                                                              | Default settings                                                                  |
| --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Increase weekly AI usage across all employees | Driving regular AI tool usage company-wide, tracked against an adoption target                        | WAU 3 days/week · All employees · All tools · 12 months                           |
| Onboard a team to AI tools                    | Moving a specific team from low or zero usage to active usage, for new tool rollouts or team launches | WAU 2 days/week · Specific group · All tools · 12 months                          |
| Grow daily AI habits in the team              | Shifting a group from occasional to consistent daily AI usage                                         | AI-engaged time per employee 5 hours/week · Specific group · All tools · 6 months |
| Reach a daily AI interaction target per user  | Tracking how actively employees use AI tools day-to-day                                               | 20 AI interactions/week · All employees · All tools · 12 months                   |
| Achieve full adoption in a department         | Driving 100% active usage across an entire department, as a clear milestone                           | WAU 1 days/week · Specific group · All tools · 3 months                           |

</details>

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{% hint style="info" %}
You may **Edit** an existing goal by accessing the action menu (⋮) of the specific goal listed in the **Goals** panel.

Editing the target, population, or monitored tools of an ongoing adoption goal recalculates its progress automatically. This recalculation is retroactive when the goal start date is in the past.
{% endhint %}

3. Enter a goal **Name** and, optionally, a **Description**.
4. Select a **Metric**: **Weekly AI-engaged time**, **Weekly active users**, or **Number of AI interactions**. Refer to [Monitoring AI Tools](/user-guide/ai-tools/working-with-ai-tools.md#estimation-of-ai-engaged-time-per-employee) for metric details.
5. Set the thresholds shown for the selected metric. For example, for **Weekly active users**, set how many days per week employees must use AI tools and what percentage of the target population counts as goal achievement.
6. In the **For** dropdown, select **All tools** to apply the goal across every monitored tool, or select specific **Monitored AI tools**. You can pick as many as you need. You can only select tools already configured in Nexthink for adoption monitoring. Refer to [Configuring AI tools](/user-guide/ai-tools/setting-up-and-managing-ai-tools/configuring-ai-tools.md) for tool settings.

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7. Under **Target employees**, select **All employees** or **Specific groups**.\
   **Specific-group** options require **user organization fields** configured in Nexthink. Contact your Nexthink administrator to [configure user organization fields](/user-guide/administration/system-configuration/data-management/environment/product-configuration.md#configuring-user-organization).
8. Under **Timeline**, set a start and end date.

{% hint style="info" %}
For a **weekly** goal, the calendar picker only lets you select complete weeks. For a **monthly** goal, it only lets you select complete months.
{% endhint %}

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## Reviewing adoption goals

**AI adoption goals** lists all configured adoption objectives, alongside their progress and context.

Goals cascade from company-wide targets down to specific business units and teams, so you can track adoption at the level that matters to you.

From the **Goals** panel, on the left:

* Check how many goals are active and how many have reached their target.
* Review goal-specific metrics, target populations, monitored tools, and timeline from its goal card.
* Open the action menu (⋮) on a goal card, then click **Edit**, **Mark as reached**, or **Clear tag**. Refer to [#creating-ai-adoption-goals](#creating-ai-adoption-goals "mention") for goal edits.

{% hint style="info" %}
The system includes an active adoption goal out of the box: **Increase weekly AI usage across all employees**.
{% endhint %}

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From the **Goal progress** panel, on the right:

* Review the progress chart, plotted against goal target (in percentage) across the defined timeline. You may hover over a point on the chart to see the progress for that period.

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From the **Adoption progress by** panel, break down adoption progress by teams and employee groups specific to your **Organization** structure.

* Compare each group adoption rate when the goal started against **Today**, visualized as a two-bar chart.
* Hover over a bar to see the change in adoption rate **between the start of the goal and today.** For example, **+25%**.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Organization** breakdowns require **user organization fields** configured in Nexthink. Contact your Nexthink administrator to [configure user organization fields](/user-guide/administration/system-configuration/data-management/environment/product-configuration.md#configuring-user-organization).
{% endhint %}

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RELATED TOPICS

* [Monitoring AI adoption](/user-guide/ai-tools/working-with-ai-tools/monitoring-ai-adoption.md)
* [Governing AI tools](/user-guide/ai-tools/governing-ai-tools.md)


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