As AI adoption accelerates across the industry, most organizations are not prepared to manage the complex and emerging risks that come with it. Global research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group recently published resources to implement proactive, principles-based frameworks to allow companies to formalise AI risk programs, improve governance, and adjust their strategies with business goals.
Toronto, July 9, 2025 /prnewswire/ – Organizations employ AI at a rapid pace, but many lack the control they need to manage the risks associated with these conversion systems. From hallucinations and biases to deepfakes and hostile threats, AI can introduce new vulnerabilities that traditional governance frameworks are not designed to address. To help organizations tackle these challenges, the Information Technology Research Group, a global research and advisory company, recently published research insights in the Blueprint. Build an AI risk management roadmapproviding structured methodologies to develop comprehensive business-aligned AI risk programs.
Info-Tech Research Group recently published research insights at Blueprint, building an AI risk management roadmap to help businesses to formalise their AI risk programs, improve governance, and align their strategies with business goals. (CNW Group/Information Technology Research Group)
As outlined in Info-Tech's AI Risk Management Framework, failure to actively manage AI risks can lead to regulatory violations, reputational damage, and reduced value. Despite these results, many organizations still rely on ad hoc processes, relying on silo risk ownership within technical teams that only respond to problems after they occur or are not involved in the business.
“AI risk is a business risk. All AI risks have business impacts.” say Bill WongResearcher at Info-Tech Research Group. “Accountability cannot be taken a break from AI leaders alone. Business executives must be active participants in identifying, assessing and responding to AI risks. This starts with incorporating risk management into the governance, strategy and decision-making process.”
The company's resources outline how to evolve fragmentation or informal approaches into structured AI risk management programs through four key aspects: risk governance, risk identification, risk measurement, and risk response. One of the themes of Blueprint focuses on ensuring that the AI risk framework is integrated with the broader enterprise risk management and programs are integrated with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
To support implementation, Info-Tech has introduced a comprehensive roadmap built around framing AI risks, establishing AI risk governance, identifying and assessing risks, measuring potential impacts, defining responses, and creating roadmap for implementation. An important element of the blueprint is the formation of the AI Risk Council (AIRC). This includes sensual expressions from it, AI, and business leaders. The council is responsible for assigning ownership, recommending risk tolerance, reviewing risk assessments, and ensuring shared accountability across the organization.
The Info-Tech framework also highlights the need to establish basic AI principles such as explanability and transparency, fairness, data privacy, safety and security, effectiveness and reliability, and accountability. These principles are derived from a global framework, such as those developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and serve as the ethical and operational backbone of responsible AI.
Critical processes for operating AI risk management Info-Tech resources are designed to help organizations reduce the number of unclear risks, build realistic contingency plans, enable job accountability, and improve regulatory compliance, including the high-risk system requirements of EU AI law. It also supports better decision-making and continuous monitoring to ensure that AI systems are aligned with organizational goals.
Company's Build an AI risk management roadmap BluePrint outlines the following steps for IT leaders to operate AI risk management across their organizations:
Establish basic AI principles – Defines ethical and operational standards that guide the development and deployment of AI.
Evaluate the maturity of AI risk management – Understand the current state of AI risk governance and identify functional gaps.
Create and assign AI Risk Council responsibilities – Establish clear accountability for AI risks across the leadership and governance teams.
Implement the AI risk management framework – Develop AI risk management programs starting with the introduction of AI risk governance programs in line with the organization's fundamental principles, determine how to identify and classify AI risks, establish methods for measuring and monitoring AI risks, and ultimately adopt strategies for action to mitigate AI risk.
Pursuing AI risk measurement initiatives – Prioritize actions that reduce the likelihood or impact of AI risk based on feasibility and value.
Build an AI risk management roadmap – Transform your priorities into a structured, time-bound action plan tailored to your business goals.
The blueprint promotes preventive thinking, encourages organizations to detect, assess, and mitigate AI risks before they come true, and translates risk management from reactive obligations to strategic enablers.
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