Enterprise AI governance frameworks kill mid-size innovation through compliance theater that takes six months to approve any AI initiative. Here is how to build lightweight, NIST-aligned frameworks that accelerate safe AI adoption instead - starting with three core controls that prevent catastrophic failures while enabling teams to ship AI products weekly, not quarterly.
Stop choosing between innovation and business risk. Most governance frameworks create bureaucracy that kills progress, and IBM data shows 63 percent of breached organizations lack AI governance policies. Here is a practical template that enables AI teams while managing actual risks.
When ChatGPT went down for 12 hours in June 2025, thousands of businesses had no fallback. IDC predicts 70 percent of top AI enterprises will use multi-model routing by 2028. Task-specific routing can cut inference costs by up to 85 percent. Resilience through model diversity is not optional.