1. Your software inventory doesn’t include a single AI tool, and you know that’s not accurate. 

2. Someone in your organization asked whether it’s okay to use ChatGPT for a client project. Nobody had a clear answer. 

3. Your last AI governance conversation ended with “let’s pick this up next quarter.” 

4. Finance asked what the organization is spending on AI, and you had to guess. 

5. Half your organization is using AI daily. Your governance framework was written before most of those tools existed. 

The organizations handling AI well right now aren’t doing anything extraordinary, they just started earlier. This handbook helps you close that gap. 

What’s inside

Eight practical principles for CIOs and IT leaders who need to move fast without losing control. From building continuous visibility across your AI environment, to governing use cases rather than just tools, to getting a cost model in place before spending gets ahead of you. Plus, a 30-60-90-day action plan to put it all into practice, because you needed an AI governance model yesterday.