/ THE SHORT ANSWER
- 01Handoff covers decisions and operations, not only code and credentials.
- 02Require live demonstrations of update, evaluation, incident, rollback, and recovery.
- 03Assign owners and review dates to every control and artefact.
/ dotSuper point of view
A system is not production-ready until the organisation can own its decisions and failure modes without the original builder standing beside it.
What the evidence says
NIST’s AI RMF treats AI risk management as a lifecycle responsibility spanning governance, context, measurement, and management.
A practical decision framework
It is designed to make the decision inspectable, not to imitate a platform ranking formula, certification checklist, or legal test.
- Own: business owner, technical owner, risk owner, support, suppliers, and escalation.
- Operate: users, sources, prompts or rules, tools, evaluations, monitoring, costs, and capacity.
- Control: access, change, release, audit, incident, rollback, recovery, and communication.
- Improve or retire: feedback, drift, review cadence, replacement, deletion, and decommissioning.
| Step | Decision to record |
|---|---|
| 01 | Own: business owner, technical owner, risk owner, support, suppliers, and escalation. |
| 02 | Operate: users, sources, prompts or rules, tools, evaluations, monitoring, costs, and capacity. |
| 03 | Control: access, change, release, audit, incident, rollback, recovery, and communication. |
| 04 | Improve or retire: feedback, drift, review cadence, replacement, deletion, and decommissioning. |
How to put it into practice
Keep a one-page operating map linking every responsibility to the live runbook, dashboard, owner, supplier, and review date.
Remove stale draft artefacts before handover.
- Name the accountable owner and the decision this work must enable.
- Record the current evidence, assumptions, exclusions, and next review trigger.
- Measure a useful outcome rather than treating publication or deployment as success.
What this page cannot conclude
- 01Handoff depth depends on system criticality, architecture, suppliers, and internal operating model.
- 02Documentation alone does not prove competence or adequate staffing.
- 03Publication, technical eligibility, or good practice cannot guarantee ranking, referral traffic, citation, adoption, or a business outcome.
Sources
- 01ISO/IEC 42001:2023: AI Management SystemsInternational Organization for Standardization · accessed Aug 30, 2026
- 02AI Risk Management FrameworkNational Institute of Standards and Technology · accessed Aug 30, 2026
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