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Dr. A. J. Rhem featured in Department of Defense Cybersecurity and Information Systems Digest

Dr. A. J. Rhem featured in Department of Defense Cybersecurity and Information Systems Digest

Dr. Anthony J. Rhem was featured in the Cybersecurity and Information Systems Digest’s November 1st newsletter as a Voice from the Community. This notable mention highlights a variety of Dr. Rhem’s achievements including his upcoming book, Essential Topics in Information Architecture, which will be available on Amazon in December, 2022.

The Cybersecurity and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC) is a component of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Information Analysis Center. In providing important information research and analysis specific to cybersecurity, the center aims to enhance research collaboration within the field.

Learn more about CSIAC here.

A.J. Rhem & Associates featured in CIOReview

A.J. Rhem & Associates featured in CIOReview

Leading technology magazine, CIOReview, recently published an article titling A.J. Rhem and Associates the “Most Promising Knowledge Management Solutions Provider of 2022”. The article showcases the...

AI Ethics in Delivering Healthcare Analytics

AI Ethics in Delivering Healthcare Analytics

In a recent Medhealth Outlook article, AI Ethics in Delivering Healthcare Analytics, Dr. Anthony J. Rhem gives valuable insight highlighting the numerous benefits of incorporating Artificial...

Dr. Anthony J Rhem joins the Noonean Advisory Board

Dr. Anthony J Rhem joins the Noonean Advisory Board

Austin, Texas: In February 2021, Dr. Anthony Rhem was appointed to the Advisory Board of Noonean, Inc. Noonean, based in Austin Texas, is an advanced AI research company that develops highly...

Dr. A J Rhem to speak at Peoria IoT MeetUp

Dr. A J Rhem to speak at Peoria IoT MeetUp

Dr. Anthony Rhem has been invited to speak at the February of the Peoria, IL, IoT MeetUp group. The meeting is on Thursday, February 25, 2021, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM CST, and the topic will be IoT...

Dr. Anthony Rhem to speak at KM World Connect 2020

Dr. Anthony Rhem to speak at KM World Connect 2020

Have you registered for KM World Connect 2020?  From November 16-19, you can hear from 29 featured and keynote speakers, hear presentations, and participate in workshops on topics including AI,...

Free KMI Webinar on AI Ethics

Free KMI Webinar on AI Ethics

Join us online on November 16 at 10 am ET for this webinar on AI Ethics and its Impact on Knowledge Management, featuring Dr. Tony Rhem, CEO of AJ Rhem & Associates, Author, and Instructor; and...

A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc. COVID-19 Message

A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc. COVID-19 Message

COVID-19, as a global pandemic, has massively strained public health services, disrupted global supply chains, schools and business, and other activities, and has adversely affected stock markets...

Dr. Anthony J Rhem to speak at KM Showcase 2020

Dr. Anthony J Rhem to speak at KM Showcase 2020

On March 4 and 5, 2020, join your peers for two days of networking and learning! You can choose from 24 sessions, focused on best practices, case studies, and lessons learned. Presenting...

Meet the authors at KM World 2019

Meet the authors at KM World 2019

The Knowledge Management industry's most popular authors will be at KMWorld 2019. For attendees, it's the place to meet and connect with thought leaders and professionals in the industry, as well as...

Dr. Anthony Rhem to present at World IA Day 2019

Dr. Anthony Rhem to present at World IA Day 2019

On Saturday, February 23rd, Dr. Anthony Rhem is speaking on Information Architecture in AI at the Information Architecture Institute’s World IA Day at Kent State University, Ohio. Continental...

Need a Technology Speaker?

Need a Technology Speaker?

If you're looking for a speaker for your event, you'll need someone who knows what they're talking about. Someone who's been in the technology field for over 30 years. And, of course,...

Knowledge Management Matters!

Knowledge Management Matters!

Edited by John Girard, PhD., Knowledge Management Matters: Words of Wisdom from Leading Practitioners brings together some of the most well-known KM practitioners from around the globe. Exploring...

Happy Holidays from A.J. Rhem & Associates!

Our latest newsletter is here! Dr. Anthony J Rhem, President of A.J. Rhem & Associates, has been appointed Chair of the IBA Law Firm Management Committee Knowledge Management & IT Working...

Private Information Architecture classes available

A two-day Information Architecture Master Class, customized to your organization - your team will discover the architecture of how information is used, how it flows, and its context. The benefits of...

A personal invitation to join KM Mentor

Whether you're a KM professional or you're just trying to get your feet wet, you need a community. You may be looking for information on knowledge management practices, or how to implement a KM...

Dr. Anthony J. Rhem to kick off KM Roundtable series

Dr. Anthony J. Rhem to kick off KM Roundtable series

KM Chicago is kicking off their KM Roundtable series  on October 20, 2016, with a discussion of current KM issues hosted by Dr. Anthony J. Rhem. Dr. Rhem will discuss current KM issues from his...

Knowledge Management in Practice: A KMI Presentation

Knowledge Management in Practice: A KMI Presentation

On September 21, 2016, Dr. Anthony Rhem was guest speaker at the Knowledge Management Institute’s Certified Knowledge Manager’s Class. Dr. Rhem presented - A Real-World Look at Actual Cases,...

Dr. Rhem to present at IBA Conference in Austria

Dr. Rhem to present at IBA Conference in Austria

Chicago, IL Dr. Anthony J. Rhem, PhD will present at the International Bar Association Annual Conference (IBA) October 4 - 9, Vienna Austria As a member of the IBA Law Firm Management, Knowledge...

Artificial intelligence creates value only when organizations can trust how it is selected, designed, developed, deployed, used, and monitored. AJRA helps organizations move beyond high-level ethical statements and isolated policies to establish an operating model for AI governance—one that supports innovation while protecting people, the enterprise, and the communities the organization serves.

Our approach integrates AI strategy, risk management, ethics, data and knowledge governance, technology architecture, regulatory readiness, organizational change, and independent assurance. Governance is embedded across the AI lifecycle rather than added after a system is already in production.

What Makes the AJRA Approach Different

Enterprise-focused

We connect AI governance to business strategy, operating priorities, risk tolerance, and measurable value—not technology alone.

Knowledge-grounded

We address the quality, ownership, provenance, context, and flow of the organizational knowledge used by AI systems, including generative and agentic AI.

Lifecycle-based

Governance begins with ideation and intake and continues through design, testing, deployment, monitoring, change, retirement, and incident response.

Risk-proportionate

Oversight and controls are scaled to the potential impact of each AI use case, system, model, agent, vendor, and decision pathway.

Evidence-driven

We define the documentation, metrics, testing results, approvals, logs, and monitoring evidence leaders should expect before trusting an AI system.

Human-centered

Accountability remains with people. Human oversight, contestability, accessibility, fairness, privacy, transparency, and safety are designed into governance decisions.

Standards-aligned

The governance model can be mapped to recognized frameworks and obligations, including the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, IEEE CertifAIEd™, and applicable laws and sector requirements.

AJRA's Governance Philosophy

AI governance should not become policy theater or an innovation bottleneck. It should create the decision rights, evidence, controls, and accountability needed to use AI responsibly and at scale.

The AJRA AI Governance Lifecycle

AJRA applies a structured, six-stage lifecycle that translates governance principles into repeatable management practices and operational controls.

01

Discover and Establish the Baseline

Identify AI use cases, models, algorithms, generative AI tools, agents, data sources, vendors, business owners, users, and decision impacts. Assess AI readiness and maturity, surface shadow AI, document dependencies, and establish a fact-based view of current capabilities and risks.

02

Define Governance and Accountability

Establish the governance charter, decision rights, roles, committees, escalation pathways, risk ownership, acceptable-use boundaries, and executive and board reporting. Align AI governance with enterprise risk, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, compliance, procurement, data governance, model risk management, and knowledge management.

03

Classify Risk and Assess Impact

Apply a risk-tiering method based on purpose, autonomy, affected stakeholders, decision criticality, data sensitivity, legal exposure, model complexity, and potential harm. Conduct AI impact, ethics, privacy, security, bias, transparency, and vendor assessments proportionate to the risk level.

04

Design and Implement Controls

Embed policies, standards, review gates, testing requirements, human oversight, data and knowledge controls, documentation, traceability, access controls, prompt and agent safeguards, approval criteria, procurement requirements, and incident procedures within the AI lifecycle and existing workflows.

05

Validate, Approve, and Assure

Determine whether governance is working through evidence—not policy existence. Review model and system documentation, evaluation results, risk treatment, accountability, monitoring plans, and residual risk before deployment. Where appropriate, conduct independent or IEEE-aligned third-party assessments.

06

Monitor, Improve, and Report

Track performance, drift, bias, hallucination, misuse, security, privacy, incidents, human overrides, vendor changes, regulatory developments, and realized value. Provide leadership with meaningful indicators and continuously improve the AI governance management system.

Governance Across the Enterprise

Effective governance requires more than model controls; it requires coordinated management across eight interconnected domains.

Strategy and Value

Business alignment, use-case prioritization, risk appetite, value realization, and responsible innovation.

Representative outputs

AI strategy, roadmap, use-case portfolio, value and risk criteria.

Leadership and Accountability

Board and executive oversight, decision rights, ownership, escalation, and organizational accountability.

Representative outputs

Governance charter, RACI, committee model, reporting structure.

Policy and Compliance

Enterprise policies, regulatory mapping, standards alignment, and audit readiness.

Representative outputs

AI policy suite, compliance matrix, control library, evidence requirements.

Data, Information, and Knowledge

Data quality, provenance, privacy, metadata, knowledge sources, content authority, and retrieval grounding.

Representative outputs

Data and knowledge controls, source requirements, lineage and provenance rules.

Model, System, and Agent Risk

Validation, robustness, bias, transparency, autonomy, human oversight, security, and lifecycle management.

Representative outputs

Risk tiering, impact assessment, model and system cards, testing and approval gates.

Third-Party and Procurement

Vendor due diligence, contractual protections, transparency, performance, monitoring, and exit planning.

Representative outputs

Vendor assessment, procurement standards, contract control requirements.

People and Change

AI literacy, role redesign, competence, responsible use, adoption, and culture.

Representative outputs

Training, communications, role-based guidance, change and adoption plan.

Monitoring and Assurance

Metrics, incidents, drift, control effectiveness, audits, and continual improvement.

Representative outputs

Dashboards, KRIs and KPIs, audit plan, monitoring and improvement backlog.

How AJRA Helps

Engagements are tailored to the organization's maturity, regulatory environment, technology portfolio, and business objectives. Services may be delivered independently or combined into an integrated AI governance program.

AI Readiness and Maturity Assessment

Evaluate governance, leadership, workforce, process, data, knowledge, technology, risk, and operational capabilities; identify gaps and prioritize an actionable roadmap.

Responsible AI Strategy and Operating Model

Define how the organization will pursue AI value responsibly, including governance structure, decision rights, funding, accountability, and integration with enterprise management processes.

AI Policy, Standards, and Procedures

Create practical policy and control requirements covering acceptable use, generative AI, agentic AI, model and system lifecycle, data and knowledge use, human oversight, procurement, monitoring, and incidents.

AI Inventory, Risk Tiering, and Impact Assessment

Establish an authoritative inventory; classify systems and use cases; assess ethical, legal, operational, privacy, security, workforce, and societal impacts.

AI Audit and Independent Assurance

Evaluate whether governance controls are designed appropriately, operating effectively, and supported by defensible evidence. Provide findings, risk ratings, remediation actions, and leadership-ready reporting.

IEEE-Aligned AI Ethics Assessments

Perform third-party assessments aligned with the IEEE CertifAIEd™ framework to examine accountability, transparency, privacy, algorithmic bias, and other ethical criteria applicable to the system.

AI Vendor and Procurement Assessment

Assess vendor claims, model transparency, data practices, security, performance, contractual risk, monitoring, and organizational fit before purchase or renewal.

Governance Training and AI Literacy

Build role-based competence for boards, executives, governance bodies, risk and compliance teams, technology teams, business users, and AI system owners.

Implementation and Operationalization

Translate recommendations into workflows, review gates, templates, dashboards, control evidence, governance routines, and continuous-monitoring practices.

Aligned with Recognized AI Governance Frameworks

AJRA does not force every organization into a single framework. We create an integrated control environment that uses the most relevant standards, laws, and industry practices for the organization's context.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Supports a structured approach to GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, and MANAGE AI risk and trustworthiness across the lifecycle.

ISO/IEC 42001

Provides management-system requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System.

IEEE CertifAIEd™

Provides an applied ethics assessment approach addressing accountability, transparency, privacy, algorithmic bias, and related ethical criteria.

EU Artificial Intelligence Act

Informs risk classification, prohibited and high-risk practices, transparency, documentation, human oversight, AI literacy, and other obligations where applicable.

Sector and Enterprise Requirements

Integrates relevant financial services, insurance, healthcare, public-sector, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement, records, and model-risk obligations with existing governance.

What Clients Can Expect

A clear and current inventory of AI systems, use cases, models, agents, vendors, owners, data and knowledge dependencies, and risk classifications.

A governance operating model with accountable roles, decision rights, review forums, escalation paths, and executive and board oversight.

Policies and controls that are usable within real development, procurement, deployment, and business workflows.

Risk and impact assessments that distinguish acceptable experimentation from unmanaged enterprise exposure.

Documented evidence that supports regulatory inquiries, internal audit, customer due diligence, third-party assurance, and leadership decisions.

Metrics that show whether AI is trustworthy, compliant, adopted, controlled, and producing intended business value.

A prioritized improvement roadmap that balances immediate risk reduction with long-term governance maturity.

The Result

An AI governance capability that helps the organization innovate faster, because leaders, employees, customers, regulators, and partners can see how AI decisions are governed and why the organization's controls can be trusted.

Build Governance That Works in Practice

Whether your organization is beginning its AI journey, scaling generative AI, deploying autonomous agents, evaluating third-party solutions, or preparing for regulatory and assurance requirements, AJRA can help you establish governance that is practical, proportionate, and aligned with your mission.

Schedule an AI Governance Consultation