By Fritz Hesse, CTO at Riskonnect | Published by CIO Influence| December 15, 2025
AI is rapidly advancing whether business leaders feel ready or not. It’s in employees’ hands, embedded in third-party tools, and shaping business decisions every day. Seventy-eight percent of organisations now use AI in at least one business function. In the U.S., employees who say they use AI in their role at least a few times a year has doubled in two years, from 20% to 40%.
Yet despite AI’s ubiquity, most organisations still lack important guardrails to manage AI responsibly. In fact, only 12% of companies feel very prepared for AI and AI governance risks, according to Riskonnect’s 2025 New Generation of Risk Report. Without structure and oversight, strategic innovation can quickly become uncontrolled experimentation.
Read the full article in CIO Influence for four steps to build a governance framework.
