Active Governance Framework™
Traditional governance documents the world. Active governance acts in it: signaling trust, enforcing policy and explaining decisions at the moment they happen.
This framework operationalizes the highlighted layers of the Data Tiles Decision-Driven Enterprise operating model.
- Governance councils issue policies that the runtime never enforces.
- AI acts faster than governance can review, creating invisible risk.
- Trust signals exist in tools, not in the moment of decision.
- Policies execute as code, not as PDFs.
- Trust, quality and risk signals are visible to humans and agents at the moment of use.
- Governance accelerates decisions instead of slowing them.
- Audit is continuous, not a quarterly exercise.
- Stage 1
Codify Policies as Signals
Turn governance policies into machine-readable signals that travel with the data.
- Stage 2
Activate at the Point of Decision
Surface trust, risk and policy in the systems where decisions happen.
- Stage 3
Govern AI Specifically
Add the controls AI requires: explainability, accountability, drift and provenance.
- · Governance owned by a committee with no path to runtime.
- · Investment in cataloging without activation.
- · No bridge between data governance and AI governance.
- Latttice activates data governance by attaching machine-readable trust signals to every data product.
- Lenz activates AI governance at the point of decision, with explainability and policy enforcement.
How to Build Active Governance for AI
Move governance from documentation to active enforcement at the point AI consumes data and acts on decisions.
How to Move from Traditional to Active Governance
Evolve governance from documentation and councils to active signals that run at the point of decision.
How to Govern AI at the Point of Decision
Make every AI-supported decision explainable, accountable and policy-compliant in the moment.
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