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Why your governance framework is working on paper and failing in practice
Executive Brief Why your governance framework is working on paper and failing in practice The gap between documented governance and operational reality is not a compliance failure. It is a structural one — and the distinction changes everything about how you address it. Every organisation that has experienced a governance crisis in the last decade had a governance framework. In
The accountability gap AI adoption creates. What it will cost you to ignore it.
Executive Brief The accountability gap AI adoption creates — and what it will cost you to ignore it When AI begins influencing decisions, the accountability question is not who owns the AI system. It is who owns the decision the AI influenced. Most organisations have not answered that question — and the consequences are already accumulating. The governance conversation around
What good governance architecture actually looks like — and why most organisations have never seen it
Executive Brief What good governance architecture actually looks like — and why most organisations have never seen it Most executives have experienced governance documentation. Very few have experienced governance architecture. The difference is not one of degree. It is one of kind — and understanding it changes what you ask for when governance breaks down. The word governance has been
Decision Governance in the AI Era
Flagship Publication Decision Governance in the AI Era Flagship Publication Decision Governance in the AI Era A framework for organisational accountability when artificial intelligence enters the decision chain Published 2026 Publisher RequisiteTech Category Governance Research Contents The changing nature of organisational decision-making How AI enters the decision chain — three modes The accountability gap: why existing frameworks fail Decision governance
From Operating Model to Governance Architecture
Research Publication From Operating Model to Governance Architecture Research Publication From Operating Model to Governance Architecture Why the distinction matters — and what is lost when organisations conflate the two Published 2026 Publisher RequisiteTech Category Governance Research Contents Operating models and governance: a conceptual clarification What an operating model describes — and what it doesn’t The structural debt of conflation
The moment a leadership team realises the operating model has already drifted
Field Note 01 The moment a leadership team realises the operating model has already drifted There is a specific moment in almost every Leadership Clarity Diagnostic when the leadership team in the room realises, collectively and for the first time, that the operating model they believe they are running is not the one the organisation is actually running. It is
What escalation patterns tell you about governance health
Field Note 02 What escalation patterns tell you about governance health Escalation is one of the most reliable diagnostic signals available to anyone trying to understand how an organisation actually governs itself. Not the escalation process — the formal protocol that says when to escalate and to whom — but the escalation pattern: what actually gets escalated, at what frequency,
Why the first AI governance question is never about the AI
Field Note 03 Why the first AI governance question is never about the AI Every organisation that engages RT to address an AI governance challenge begins the conversation in the same place: the AI system. What model is it? How was it deployed? Who owns it technically? What does it output, and how is that output being used? These are
Decision authority breakdown at the ExCo level during regulatory-driven transformation
Global Financial Services — Regulatory Transformation Decision authority breakdown at the ExCo level during regulatory-driven transformation Decision ComplexityOperating Model DriftTransformation GovernanceRegulatory Context The Situation A governance problem presenting as a programme problem. A global financial services organisation was eighteen months into a major regulatory compliance transformation — one of the largest programmes in the firm’s recent history, with a hard
AI adoption outpacing governance — accountability gaps at the product-risk interface
Mid-Market Technology Organisation — AI Scaling AI adoption outpacing governance — accountability gaps at the product-risk interface AI GovernanceAccountability ArchitectureProduct GovernanceScaling The Situation AI in the product. Accountability nowhere. A technology organisation scaling rapidly had deployed AI into its core product in three distinct ways: AI-generated recommendations presented to end users, AI-assisted prioritisation of product development decisions, and AI-based risk