About our Context-first governance approach

Context-first governance is about understanding and describing intent in AI native digital systems.

It brings in an understanding of:

• Use cases
• The wider operational environment
• The organizational structure and
• Business capabilities.

It address common challenges in composable architecture including:

• API drift: where the API does not perform the functions it was created to delver
• API sprawl: where multiple APIs are built for similar functionality, often with duplicative data models, and
• API complexity: where APis are each built in different ways and described in different ways with different data models, requiring high cognitive load to use multiple APIs from your organisation.

Context-first governance addresses data needs and usage, making sure it’s done within compliance requirements.

And at the end of the day, context-first governance is trying to support value-based product and service delivery.

Further reading

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