Field Guide · First Edition · 2026
The AISM™ Field Guide
A pocket-size overview of the Value-First Method™ and the G.A.A.R.E. lifecycle. Twenty-five pages of practical guidance for boards, executives, and the team that owns AI risk.
What’s inside
- Why governance alone fails. The four failure modes and how AISM closes the gap.
- The CSM parallel. What the SaaS industry learned, and how AI repeats it.
- The G.A.A.R.E. lifecycle. Govern, Assess, Assure, Realize, Evolve, with the activities and artifacts at each stage.
- The Value-First Method™. People, Process, Policy, applied at every pillar.
- The AISM Health Score. A 0-100 composite the executive team will actually read.
- Three scenarios. Financial services, healthcare with shadow AI, and a SaaS scaling problem.
- Getting started. The first 30 days, the first conversation, and the right starting questions.
The Field Guide is built for the busy executive. Twenty-five pages, plain language, no jargon. Read it on a flight. Bring it to the board.
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