Do CIOs need to create an Enterprise AI Harness?

SUMMARY: How can CIOs balance innovation and control as they roll our AI capabilities across their organization. How can they balance onboarding, experience, security and flexibility?
SHOW: 1036
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1036 Transcript (docs.google.com/document/d/1dK5nfJ9G_f7YXPc0tT…)
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SHOW NOTES:
• Andy Weir (The Martian) on Eps. 193 (thecloudcast.net/2015/06/the-cloudcast-193-and…)
• Systems of Record Won the SaaS Era - Clearinghouses Will Win the Agents Era (cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/systems-of-rec…)
• Harness Engineering is where Enterprise AI becomes real (linkedin.com/pulse/harness-engineering-where-e…)

THESIS: It comes up as different control points, but CIOs are ultimately trying to figure out how to get the value from Enterprise AI while delivering a set of consistency across different teams and use-cases. Let’s explore what this “Enterprise Harness” is starting to look like.
• Enterprise Clearinghouse
• Enterprise Intelligence (a.k.a. Middleware)
• Enterprise Catalog - Models as a Service, Agents as a Service
• Enterprise Skills or Shareable Prompt Harnesses
• Symantec Routing to Models
• AI Gateway Controls
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