What good looks like
Named executive accountabilityPolicy hierarchy and escalationCross-functional review cadenceStart with decision rights
Governance is the system that decides what AI may do, who may approve it, what evidence is required and when a deployment must stop. Assign an accountable executive and give product, legal, security, data and risk owners explicit rights.
- Approve an AI governance charter
- Publish a lifecycle RACI
- Set an executive review cadence
Set the policy stack
Layer an enterprise policy, data and security standards, use-case procedures, supplier requirements and technical controls. Each layer should point to evidence and an owner instead of repeating principles.
- Define permitted, restricted and prohibited uses
- Record exceptions with expiry dates
- Link policy to control tests