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Build Your AI Risk Management Roadmap

Develop your AI risk management framework to mitigate risk and drive value for your AI investments.

AI continues to be the most transformative and disruptive technology today, with organizations around the world accelerating their adoption and deployment of AI-based solutions. Alongside these new and exponential opportunities, AI solutions are also introducing severe financial and reputational risks that require evaluation and management to mitigate. Our step-by-step blueprint provides detailed guidance through the process of AI risk management, helping you to create a comprehensive roadmap and AI strategy aligned with organizational needs.

Risk is an unavoidable part of business that must be actively monitored, managed, and mitigated to avoid financial losses and reputational damage to your organization. Though their effects are just as impactful, AI risks are often addressed separately from organizational risks – causing inconsistencies in the approach and leaving AI leaders too accountable for impacts. Transform your ad hoc AI risk management processes into a formalized, ongoing program aligned with existing business risk management processes to take a proactive stance against AI threats and vulnerabilities.

1. Build off the back of existing standards.

The scale and scope of opportunities made possible by AI are limitless, but you do not have to start from scratch when shaping foundational principles for its use. Our blueprint leverages the NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 as a starting point, to be refined by senior leadership and aligned with your organizational risk appetite and AI maturity.

2. Make risk measurable and manageable.

Identifying potential risks to your organization is an essential first step in your risk management approach, but not all risks are created equal. Establish an AI risk council with key players from across your organization to determine acceptable risk thresholds, create risk likelihood, severity level, and reputational assessments, and provide accessible documentation for all potential risks.

3. Don’t risk your reputation.

Once an organizational AI risk program has been agreed upon, communicated, and implemented, the greatest risk you face might be a false sense of security. AI is evolving exponentially, risking that your assessment will quickly become outdated. Perform regular health checks to keep your finger on the pulse of the key risks threatening the organization and your reputation.

Use our comprehensive blueprint to navigate the risks and take full advantage of the exponential capabilities of AI.

Build an AI risk management program and roadmap that can stand up to the current rapidly changing technical environment by leveraging our step-by-step methodology, tools, and templates to:

  • Transform your ad hoc AI risk management processes into a formalized, ongoing program and increase AI risk management success.
  • Take a proactive stance against AI threats and vulnerabilities by identifying and assessing the greatest AI risks before they occur.
  • Involve key stakeholders, including the organization’s senior management team, to gain buy-in and to focus on the AI risks most critical to the organization.

Build Your AI Risk Management Roadmap Research & Tools

1. Build Your AI Risk Management Roadmap Storyboard – Drive value for your existing and prospective AI investments by proactively managing and mitigating risk.

In this research, we will help you to:

  • Assess your current AI risk maturity and organizational buy-in.
  • Establish an AI risk council and determine AI risk management program goals.
  • Govern, identify, measure, and respond to AI risks.
  • Create a method to monitor priority AI risks, consider possible responses, and continuously communicate these to the organization to implement a suited risk management plan.

2. AI Risk Management Roadmap Presentation Template – Provide a clear, concise, and visual summary of your AI risk management roadmap.

Use this PowerPoint template to:

  • Communicate the importance of AI risk management to executive leadership and gain buy-in.
  • Define key stakeholders and executive leaders engaged in the AI risk management program.
  • Establish and document processes for AI risk governance, identification, measurement, and response.

3. AI Risk Management Maturity Assessment Tool – Analyze your organization’s current- and target-state maturity in AI capabilities and systematically develop a plan for your target AI practices.

In this assessment tool, we will help you to:

  • Assess your current risk management capabilities across risk governance, identification, measurement, and response.
  • Identify and collect essential data that will shape your maturity assessment.
  • Visualize the gaps between your current and target states to enable effective prioritization.

4. AI Risk Assessment Worksheet – Structure a comprehensive risk assessment for all current and potential AI risks in your organization.

Use this tool to:

  • Explore and evaluate common AI risks that may impact your organization.
  • Identify specific risks within your AI risk taxonomy and create a risk response with action items to mitigate or transfer the risk.
  • Reassess the impact and likelihood of the risk once action items are completed.

5. AI Risk Register Tool – Build a repository of all the AI risks identified in your environment with the responsible owner, category, and planned actions for each risk.

Use this register tool to:

  • Record your organization’s likelihood and impact scales as determined by the IT risk council.
  • Leverage industry definitions for AI risk categories and AI risks that may occur.
  • Create an accessible centralized repository for identifying and mitigating AI risks.

6. AI Risk Action Plan – Establish and track accountability within your department to determine next steps for managing AI risk.

Use this Word-based template to:

  • Document key information about identified high-priority risks that need resolution.
  • Define related risk accountabilities and key risk indicators for individual risks.
  • Communicate the appropriate risk response decided by the AI risk council to gain support from executive leadership.

7. AI Risk Report – Communicate the results of recent risk assessments to the senior leadership team and provide a summary of important AI risk management developments.

Use this comprehensive report template to:

  • Document the results of the AI risk council’s annual review, the risk response mitigation actions for each risk event, and recommendations to mitigate identified risk.
  • Communicate the outcomes of risk severity assessments to executive leadership.
  • Establish, define, and cost out multiple risk response opportunities.

8. AI Risk Management Program Manual – Document all the major activities in your holistic risk management process in a single source of truth.

Use this template to:

  • Provide a thorough overview of your organization’s risk management program.
  • Document current maturity levels, goals, and metrics for successful implementation.
  • Record the responsibilities and members of the AI risk council.
  • Document and collect all risk management templates, reports, and plans in this one document.

9. AI Initiatives Prioritization and Roadmap Planning Tool – Prioritize AI risk initiatives by evaluating the value and feasibility for each initiative.

This tool will help you:

  • Prioritize and shortlist your AI risk management initiatives.
  • Visualize AI risk management initiatives on a prioritization map.
  • Build a Gantt chart initiative roadmap.

Develop your AI risk management framework to mitigate risk and drive value for your AI investments.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

You get:

  • Build Your AI Risk Management Roadmap Storyboard
  • AI Risk Management Roadmap Presentation Template
  • AI Risk Management Maturity Assessment Tool
  • AI Risk Assessment Tool
  • AI Risk Register Tool
  • AI Risk Action Plan
  • AI Risk Report
  • AI Risk Management Program Manual
  • AI Initiatives Prioritization and Roadmap Planning Tool

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Get the help you need in this 6-phase advisory process. You'll receive 7 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Frame AI Risks
  • Call 1: Assess current AI risk maturity and organizational buy-in.

Guided Implementation 2: AI Risk Governance
  • Call 1: Establish an AI risk council and determine AI risk management program goals.

Guided Implementation 3: AI Risk Identification
  • Call 1: Identify the AI risk categories used to organize risk events.
  • Call 2: Identify the threshold for risk the organization can withstand.

Guided Implementation 4: AI Risk Measurement
  • Call 1: Create a method to assess AI risk event severity.

Guided Implementation 5: AI Risk Measurement
  • Call 1: Establish a method to monitor priority AI risks and consider possible AI risk responses.

Guided Implementation 6: AI Risk Management Roadmap
  • Call 1: Communicate AI risk priorities to the business and implement AI risk management plan.

Author

Bill Wong

Contributors

  • Salvador Barragan, Global Data & AI Strategy and Governance Leader, Data Meaning
  • Jeremy Gill, Managing Director, Enterprise Applications and Data Platforms

Search Code: 107430
Last Revised: April 30, 2025

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