AI exposure: Management Analysts
Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.
Reading this score
computed54.6% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Management Analysts at the 92th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 3.2 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 11 tasks it averages 1.91 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports, at 93.3%. The least is Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work..., at 23.3%. A gap of 70.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within business and financial operations occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 48 roles in the group is 47.1%, and only 9 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 11 tasks, 10 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
11 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports. | 93.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% | 3.21 | exposed |
| Gather and organize information on problems or procedures. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.48 | exposed |
| Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.45 | exposed |
| Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes. | 58.3% | 29.2% | 12.5% | 4.24 | exposed |
| Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.10 | exposed |
| Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.61 | exposed |
| Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.48 | exposed |
| Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.74 | exposed |
| Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.21 | exposed |
| Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy. | 42.5% | 32.5% | 25.0% | 3.84 | exposed |
| Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 4.10 | assisted |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 3.23 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.23 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.82 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.95 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.91 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.23 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.