---
id: "action-map-human-ai-relationships"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Stage 2: Design & Partnership Portfolio (Partner)"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/manage-your-ai-investments-like-a-portfolio"
source_title: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
tags: ["workforce-planning", "change-management"]
related: ["framework-four-portfolio-stages"]
action: "Define how humans and AI systems will interact, including impacts on staffing, work patterns, and reporting structures."
outcome: "Ensures organizational readiness and accurate capability planning before entering the experimental phase."
speakers: ["Faisal Hoque", "Erik Nelson", "Tom Davenport", "Paul Scade"]
sources: ["spine"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-spine"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-foci-61-ai-investments-portfolio"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/manage-your-ai-investments-like-a-portfolio"
sourceTitle: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
---
# Map Human-AI Relationships During Design

> **Action:** Define how humans and AI systems will interact, including impacts on staffing, work patterns, and reporting structures.
> **Outcome:** Ensures organizational readiness and accurate capability planning before entering the experimental phase.

A Stage 2 (Partner) activity within the [[framework-four-portfolio-stages]]. Adjacent human–AI collaboration literature (augmentation vs. automation, role redesign) deepens this step and pre-figures the *human desirability* dimension tested in Stage 3 (see [[concept-ai-learning-journeys]]).