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30 November 2023

Guardrails Before Scale: an enterprise governance blueprint for generative AI

Guardrails are a working system of decisions, evidence and review cycles, and an organisation that produces only a policy document has documented an intention. Nothing in this article constitutes legal advice. It is offered to support discussion and further review with qualified advisers. Did the executive order ...

27 November 2023

Ready for the Metaverse?

Readied your strategy to excel in the virtual frontier of the Metaverse?As the metaverse economy blossoms, traditional businesses face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. This digital frontier, powered by virtual reality, augmented reality and blockchain technologies, offers a new world of commerce, collaboration, and creativity.The secret ...

12 November 2023

Life as a Fractional CAIO

Lessons from the Frontlines of a Mid-Market Web3 CompanyFor me the past year has been nothing short of transformative! Let me rewind for a moment and set out how I got the gig. I’d been writing about a variety of subjects and had opined on ...

17 October 2023

Data Security and Privacy

Navigating the Complex World of Data Security and Privacy: A Strategic Approach for OrganisationsHaving spent many years working in the domain of Trust, Privacy and Security, we thought it might be timely to reflect on the key differences and how organisations should respond to the ...

31 August 2023

From Pilots to Copilots: scaling enterprise generative AI with data, controls and measurable value

Scaling generative artificial intelligence is a portfolio decision, taken against baselines and stop thresholds that are written down before any pilot runs. Nothing in this article constitutes legal advice. It is offered to support discussion and further review with qualified advisers. How should an organisation decide which ...

29 August 2023

Lessons from a Scaleup Strategy

Strategies to Grow Your Business In the competitive landscape of today's business world, it is imperative for companies to continuously seek out strategies that will enable them to grow and thrive. Whether you are a startup or scaleup looking to establish your presence in the market ...

A deferred decision on an office table, illustrating the unrecorded cost of waiting to adopt AI

29 June 2023

The Cost of Waiting: precaution, opportunity and the ethics of not adopting AI

Paper six of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, and the one most likely to be misread as an argument for moving fast. It is an argument for symmetry. Why is deferral treated as the safe option? Because its costs ...

An approval document beside a system that has since changed, illustrating point-in-time assurance

31 May 2023

Approved Once, Changed Daily: from point-in-time ethics to continuous AI assurance

Paper five of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, on what happens to an approval after the committee has given it. What is wrong with approving an AI system once? The approval certifies a system that will soon not exist, ...

31 May 2023

The Enterprise AI Skills Map: building workforce readiness for generative AI

The paper argued that the scarce enterprise capability was machine fluency joined to domain judgement and responsible execution, and that organisations were buying the first of the three because it was the only one a vendor could supply. What did The Enterprise AI Skills Map argue? The ...

A meeting in which responsibility for an AI-supported decision is dispersed across several parties

28 April 2023

Everybody’s System, Nobody’s Risk: accountability gaps in distributed AI governance

Paper four of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, written as the UK set out its intention to regulate AI through existing regulators rather than a new one. How does accountability go missing in an AI supply chain? Through an ...

04 April 2023

Wrangling the Hype of AI

Caution Beyond the HypeGenerative AI, such as ChatGPT, ClaudeAI and Midjourney, is garnering significant attention from businesses eager to adopt the latest technology. However, amid the excitement, it’s critical for leaders to avoid being swayed by exaggerated claims of imminent disruption or transformative power.Historically, early ...

The same AI tool used in two very different work settings, illustrating adoption as a configuration rather than a model

31 March 2023

The Unit of Adoption: why organisations adopt configurations, not models

Paper three of six in the Ecaveo Working Papers on the higher-order issues in AI adoption, written in the month that embedded assistants were announced across mainstream office software. What does an organisation actually adopt? Never a model. It adopts a configuration of seven elements, of which ...

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