Show Notes
In this episode, Simon Burton talks to CJ Anderson, a qualified librarian with over 30 years in the information profession, and now founder of Iron Carrot a specialist data governance consultancy. CJ explains how she helps firms build the right foundations for AI, by having the right conversations, and building the accountability, ownership and clear decision making processes around data that set a firm up to enable AI. We discuss why real AI readiness starts with getting your data in order, why that foundation is built through people and process. We dig into what actually causes AI projects to go wrong inside law firms, where the accountability gaps tend to sit, who should actually own data governance within a firm, and the real risks of not having it in place. We also talk about what good governance looks like in practice versus governance that exists purely to tick a box, and the genuine opportunity all of this creates for knowledge and information professionals, who are often well suited to support or toead this work. CJ also shares her own career story, from her early years as a librarian through two decades of hands-on data governance work, and what ultimately led her to found Iron Carrot. A conversation about the unglamorous groundwork that actually determines whether AI adoption succeeds or quietly fails.
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