Newsletter Archive

2026

AJRA 2026 Q1 newsletter

Q1 2026

Douglas County AI governance training | Essential Topics in Knowledge Management | Bloomfire enterprise evaluator | Act Digital Executive Forum | ICKM 2026 Santiago | RHEMINISCING podcast

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Q2 2026

IEEE CertifAIEd Assessment Program | AltaWorld Insurance Tech Conference | Springer Nature Editor of Distinction | Bloomfire enterprise evaluator | Top 50 Thought-Leading AI Company | ICKM 2026 Santiago

2025

AJRA Q1 Newsletter

Q1 2025

Partnership with The Spectrum Group | AI Salon presentation | Top 50 AI Thought Leader | 2025 KM & AI Summit | Lucidea Thought Leaders | Enhancing AI with IA and KM | George Mason University STP Collaborative | Lead Guest Editor AI | Contribution to SCCE manual 

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Q2 2025

AI evolution at Northwestern Law | Launch of AJRA AI Center of Excellence | Paraison Invitational sponsorship | Global partnership with Knowledge Associates | Dr. Rhem joins The SPECTRUM Group | AJRA online training site with Coursera

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Q3 2025

Douglas County selects AJRA | AJRA AI Center of Excellence nominated for Award | The Women’s Board of the Chicago Urban League’s Scholarship Sponsorship | David Hickman joins The SPECTRUM Group | Dr. Annie Green publishes “Diary of HI & AI”

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Q4 2026

InsightJam on careers and AI | Douglas County AI governance delivery | ICKM Lisbon | AI for board members workshops | 2025 year in review | RHEMINISCING podcast

2024

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Q1 2024

NUvention class  |  Essential Topics in Artificial Intelligence  |  DoD Medical Readiness Command presentation  | CKS-IA virtual course 

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Q2 2024

EC-Council partnership  |  Thinkers360 Top Thought Leader  |  GRC Connect  | 2024 Guide to Knowledge Management and Best Software Platforms | KM Mentor AI platform

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Q3 2024

AJRA 35th anniversary | IEEE Certified Lead AI Assessor |  AI Leaders Summit  |  Top AI publication | GMU’s Step Collaborative appointment | GRC Outlook magazine

AJRA 4th Quarter and Holiday Edition 2024 newsletter header featuring festive holiday lights, the title ‘AJRA book featured in Thinkers360’s 2025 Must-Read list,’ and an image of the book cover for ‘Essential Topics in Artificial Intelligence’ by Dr. Anthony J. Rhem.

Q4 2024

AJRA Book in Thinkers360 | Ethical AI at DGIQ East | AI Solutions at KMWorld | AJRA Partners with Ondexx | AI Ethics at Northwestern | AI/ML in CSIAC Journal | Insights in HBR Feature

2023

AJRA 2023 Q1 newsletter

Q1 2023

Ortus Club dinner | Book launch | Credly agreement | USI Midsouth Region HR webinar | Israel KM forum | Learn!

AJRA 2023 Q2 newsletter

Q2 2023

New IA masterclass | Partnership with AIV50 | Sigma Software partnership | Chapter published in Ethics: Scientific Research, Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence | Essential Topics in Artificial Intelligence | Top 50 Leading Companies on Emerging Technology

Q3 2023 AJRA newsletter

Q3 2023

Act Digital Consulting Partnership  | Future Ready Dialogue podcast | KM Mentor app funding campaign

Newsletter Archive

Q4 2023

iiBA presentation  |  Bloomfire Partnership  |  KMWorld Wrap Up  | Roche Partnership  |  AI & Ethics at KMWorld. |  Kindle Release. |  CMO Apointment

2022

AJRA Newsletter Q1 2022

Q1 2022

Partnership with DHHS of North Carolina | AI Ethics at Northwestern University | Thinkers360 Global Thought Leader & Influencer in Management | Virtual CKS-IA class | KM Mentor Job Board

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Q2 2022

Delivering technology services to Bloomberg Industry  Group | AI ethics in Medhealth Outlook | Contribution to NASEM publication | Dr. Rhem recognized as Global Thought Leader and Influencer | Virtual CKS-IA class | KM World 2022 | KM Mentor Job Board

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Q3 2022

AJRA/ACT Digital Consulting partnership | Top 50
Global Thought Leader & Influencer in Management | CIO Review magazine | AI Time Journal | Virtual CKS-IA class | KM World 2022 | KM Mentor Job Board

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Q4 2022

IBA Presentation | KMWorld 2022 | Virtual CKS-IA class | Thinkers360 Thought Leadership | CIOTimes Magazine | Learn | Essential Topics in Information Architecture 

2021

AJRA newsletter q1 2021

Q1 2021: KM Mentor app | IoT Meetup | Noonean Advisory Board | KM Store | ISG Summit | AI/ML Interactive Workshop

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Q2 2021: Top 50 Global Thought Leader | CKS-IA class | AI and Big Data in KM presentation | KM Mentor Job Board | Partnership with Scylla | Top Big Data Companies in Illinois | KM Mentor Relaunch

AJRA 3rd qtr 2021 newsletter

Q3 2021: Virtual CKS-IA class | Top 5 KM Technologies webinar | Safe, Ethical & Effective Next-gen AI for Physical Security | Essential Topics in KM course | AI-powered Knowledge Delivery through the Digital Workplace 

AJRA 2021 holiday newsletter

Q4 2021: AWS Partnership Cloud Practitioner Certification Training | Country Financial DevOps Connect 2021 Conference | Knowledge Management Strategy for G2 | KMWorld Connect 2021 | Thinkers360 Global Thought Leader & Influencer | KM Mentor Job Board

2020

First quarter 2020
First quarter 2020: COVID-19 | KM Showcase 2020 | Army Small Business contract | IMF Contract | KM Mentor Forum open | IA Virtual Education | KM Mentor Masterclass
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Second quarter 2020: COVID-19 | OASIS US GSA contract vehicle partnership | Founding Editorial Board appointment | Top Thought Leader selection| KM Mentor Forum open | CKS IA Virtual Course | KM Mentor Masterclass

Holiday 2020 Newsletter

Holiday Edition 2020:Cambridge Resources & Information Services Group | KM Webinar on AI Ethics | KM World Connect  AI Landscape in KM | *NEW* KM Mentor app | Implementing KaaS Through the Digital Workplace | KM Mentor Masterclass | COVID-19

2019

First quarter 2019
First quarter 2019: World IA Day | Knowledge-as-a-Service Presentation | Partnership with BMA | KM Mentor Masterclass | Infomation Architecture Education
Second quarter 2019
Second quarter 2019: Datanova Scientific partnership | Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit | Black Enterprise Summit | DoD & Federal Knowledge Management Symposium | KM Mentor Masterclass | Infomation Architecture Education
Third quarter 2019
Third quarter 2019: Workshops at Carmeuse | Partnership with Cambridge Resources and ISG | AI Leadership Program at Georgetown University | KM Mentor Masterclass | Infomation Architecture Education
2019 Holiday newsletter
2019 Holiday newsletter: Global Thoughtleader | KM World 2019 | KM Mentor Masterclass | Infomation Architecture Education

2018

First quarter 2018
First quarter 2018 – Cancer Research Product | AJRA Education | Dr. Rhem leads IBA LFMC KM & IT Working Group
Second quarter 2018
Second quarter 2018: National Institute of Health | Government Contracts | ICON Partnership | IBA Conference in Italy | KM Mentor | Education
Third quarter 2018
Third quarter 2018: Big Data in T1D | LTI and ACORDPartnership | Stan Garfield’s “Profiles in Knowledge” | Education
2018 Holiday newsletter
2018 Holiday newsletter: TweetBeam | Disruptive Technologies | Cancer Research Proposal | JDRF Research Grant | IA Education

2017

February-March 2017
February/March 2017: KM Around the World | KM Partnerships | KM and Big Data | AJRA Training News
April-May 2017
April/May 2017: IA Training | AJRA Presentations | KM Connections | KM Partnerships
Summer 2017
Summer 2017: KM In Practice Turns One! | IBA Conference – Sydney, Australia | Tweet Beaming | KM Mentor
September-October 2017
September/October 2017: Sears Home Service | 2017 KM World | IBA Annual Conference in Sydney, Australia | IA training for Navy personnel
2017 Holiday newsletter
2017 Holiday newsletter: IBA Committee | AJRA Education | Cancer Research Product Update

2016

December 2016-January 2017 (Holiday Issue)
December 2016/January 2017 (Holiday Issue): New online IA Certification course | Professional certification courses | eBooks from KM Mentor | Cancer research product POC
November 2016
November 2016: KM in Cancer Research | Lecture Series | KM World Book Signing | VMEdu Partnership

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.

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