White Paper - Embedding AI Governance in Client Engagements

88% of organizations used AI in at least one business function during 2025, and IT consulting engagements focused specifically on AI strategy grew 89% year over year over the same period. Adoption, in other words, is no longer the open question. Governance is. Only 8% of organizations globally maintain a comprehensive AI governance framework, and that figure falls to just 2% among small firms. Eighty-seven percent of organizations claim to have clear AI governance frameworks, but fewer than 25% have fully implemented the controls needed to manage bias, transparency, and security risk in practice — a gap between stated policy and operational reality that is now the primary exposure facing both client organizations and the consulting firms advising them.