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The Governed AI Factory
The Governed AI Factory

How I built a 200-asset AI-governance programme with Microsoft Cowork in a single month, and what it taught me. This field report covers the architecture and workflows that made it possible, the real numbers (quality, cost, and how it stacks up against a two-to-three person-year traditional build), the human craft AI can't replace, an honest log of what broke, and where I think Microsoft should take the platform next.

Cowork = My Collaborative Worker
Cowork = My Collaborative Worker

Cowork is MINDBLOWING but there are some risks! I’ve been experimenting with how I can use it to transform an end to end process to aid me develop the Empower Your World structure and content using Reference guardrails, Skills, and collaborating with it - This is about the Why, what and how…

Scalable Governance v2
Scalable Governance v2

Not all solutions are the same complexity, criticality, size so we can’t, or more importantly shouldn’t, look to govern them all in a single way. Small solutions should be governed lightly, more critical or sensitive solutions should be governed robustly.

In v2 of this scalable governance model this model gives an improved method of defining a common language and a standard way of assessing and defining action around different scales of ideas, use cases, and solutions, whilst giving flexibility to apply it to any organisation, in any industry, at any scale.

Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen

Vision & Strategy

How do we define a vision and strategy for our Power Platform Implementation? Then break that down into a roadmap of goals which we can translate down into a series of aligned activities to achieve our vision over time.

So… Where to start… The approach I’m going to use to break this down is to talk about Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, and OKRs and we’re going to think about Power Platform in our organisation as a ‘Product’ rather than a ‘Project’.

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