Standing Up a Governance Function — From Zero to Running
Every idea in this series is worthless until someone builds the function that runs it. The most common failure in AI governance isn't picking the wrong framework — it's never getting past the framework to an operating capability, or building such a heavy one that the organization routes around it. This closing post is a practical path from zero: what to build first, how to make governance an enabler rather than a blocker, and how to grow the function as AI adoption grows. It turns the series into a plan.
Every idea in the series is worthless until someone runs it. A practical path from zero: start with visibility (inventory, then risk-tier, then a minimal owner-assigning policy), build controls highest-leverage-first in runnable layers, and make governance an enabler — the easy path — so it accelerates trustworthy AI rather than blocking it.