by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 11, 2026
The board's AI agenda should contain decisions reserved for directors and exceptions that exceed management's authority. It should not be an inventory presentation, a technology lesson, or a collection of activity measures with no requested board action. The...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 11, 2026
An AI metric becomes decision-ready only when it has a denominator, a named owner, a trend, a threshold, and a required action. A count without those elements may describe activity, but it cannot tell management whether to continue, investigate, restrict, or stop a...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 11, 2026
An AI-assisted decision should be escalated when an observable, pre-approved boundary is crossed and the decision moves beyond the operating owner's authority. Escalation should not depend on whether someone happens to feel concerned. It should follow a condition...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 11, 2026
For every material AI-assisted decision, retain enough evidence to reconstruct the decision, the authority behind it, the system state that informed it, and the outcome that followed. A final output alone is not a decision record. It cannot show which model, data,...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 11, 2026
As an operating rule, the executive authorized to approve the underlying business decision should remain the named accountable owner when AI informs that decision. The technology team may operate the system. A vendor may provide the model. A committee may review the...
