Governance

The conventional play for enterprise AI strategies is IT leads, committees advise, everyone weighs in. That produces strategies that live in slide decks and die in execution, writes Eric Dodson Greenberg, Cox Media Group’s chief legal officer. An integrated legal and IT model isn’t an intuitive answer, but it may be the right one for a certain type of general...

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Boards today face a governance landscape that is broader, faster-moving and less forgiving than ever before. This collection of 14 essential reads draws on the strongest governance articles CCI has published in the past year — covering everything from AI oversight and geopolitical risk to board training and M&A due diligence.

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Fiduciary responsibilities, regulations and oversight

Capturing enterprise value from AI now depends less on the technology itself than on how rigorously executives and boards govern, oversee and steer it