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Credo AI Partners with Slalom to Advance Enterprise AI Governance Adoption

Today, we at Credo AI are thrilled to announce our partnership with Slalom, a renowned business and technology consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

August 12, 2024
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Today, we at Credo AI are thrilled to announce our partnership with Slalom, a renowned business and technology consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Slalom has an impressive track record of helping hundreds of organizations move quickly to maximize the potential of AI. The firm specializes in a wide array of services, including strategy, operations, and technology transformations, with focus on data & analytics, AI Governance, and Responsible AI.

Together, Credo AI and Slalom aim to transform the AI Governance landscape by combining Slalom's comprehensive strategic framework and Credo AI's state-of-the-art Responsible AI Governance Platform through shared AI Governance Expertise. This partnership will help operationalize AI governance, risk management, and compliance, ensuring organizations can confidently leverage AI technologies.

The Role of Partnerships in AI Governance

Credo AI is a leading AI governance platform that empowers organizations to adopt AI responsibly, safely, and confidently by proactively measuring, monitoring, and managing AI risks. Credo AI assists organizations of all sizes, including Global 2000s, SMBs, and startups, in unlocking AI's innovative potential while ensuring compliance with emerging global regulations and standards, such as the EU AI Act and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

Currently, Credo AI collaborates with channel partners to promote the widespread adoption of governance, risk management, and compliance for AI (GRC for AI). These partnerships enhance organizational capacity to embrace comprehensive and contextual AI governance practices.

Together with our channel partners, Credo AI aims to:

  • Adopt AI technologies confidently: Our partnership helps enterprises leverage AI to meet top-line, bottom-line, and green-line growth goals. This is crucial for emerging innovations like Generative AI, where early governance enables management of risks and maximizes benefits.
  • Accelerate AI innovation through comprehensive governance: Credo AI’s governance software standardizes and scales responsible AI practices across the AI lifecycle. With the change management expertise of our channel partners, we cater to AI enterprises at any stage of their Responsible AI journey.
  • Augment future-proofing an enterprise: Success in the AI age requires agility in adapting to technological, geopolitical, and regulatory changes. The combined expertise of our channel partners and Credo AI’s governance software helps enterprises navigate these dynamics effectively and efficiently.

Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Implementation to Accelerate Innovation

"Slalom is excited to announce our AI Governance partnership with CredoAI, unlocking a path to green for organizations transforming their business and cementing a competitive edge through AI. We are excited to provide an end-to-end, multi-disciplinary AI Governance and implementation strategy enabling organizations as they navigate the complex AI ecosystem with concerns around privacy, security, and scalability to a future state where AI Governance amplifies investments and delivers business value through innovation." —Na Young Kim, Principal Global Data & Technology, Slalom

The partnership between Slalom and Credo AI leads organizations to accelerate innovation by bridging the gap between policy, strategy, operations, and technology through our AI Governance framework. This collaboration focuses on:

  • Accelerating AI portfolio, adoption, and scalability: Providing a safety net for experimentation, this partnership unlocks untapped opportunities, helping organizations to move faster and more confidently with AI technologies.
  • Optimizing resources with humans in the loop: Ensuring that AI systems are not only efficient but also aligned with human oversight and intervention, optimizing resources and decision-making processes enabling innovation and experimentation. 
  • Managing, anticipating, and mitigating risks: Through robust risk identification, classification, and continuous monitoring, organizations can confidently and promptly react with an incident management response and continued training, thereby safeguarding their reputation, financial health, liability, and stakeholder trust.

Synergistic Collaboration

The collaboration between Slalom and Credo AI is synergistic. Rooted in our shared expertise in AI Governance, Credo AI supplies cutting-edge technology expertise and Slalom’s strategic and tactical AI Governance to usher organizations through this business transformation. By leveraging the strengths of both organizations, this partnership ensures that clients receive not only a market-leading AI Governance Platform but also a comprehensive approach to integrating AI governance to effectively business and technical operations.

Slalom's Comprehensive Approach to AI

Slalom's approach to enabling, measuring, and scaling the positive impact of AI focuses on five core dimensions to accelerate AI for business transformation. Creating an AI-enabled organization starts with defining desired value and aligning strategy across people, technology data, and processes. These core dimensions are:

  1. Business and Customer Value: Maximizing the impact of AI on business objectives and customer experience through portfolio & performance management. 
  2. Strategy Alignment and Orchestration: Ensuring that AI initiatives are strategically aligned and effectively integrated.
  3. Security, Ethics, and Governance: Establishing robust frameworks for AI governance, responsible AI considerations, and security.
  4. Organization and Workforce: Preparing the organization and its workforce for AI adoption through continued training and cultural alignment.
  5. Technology and Data: Leveraging the right technologies and data management practices to support AI initiatives.

Another Step in the Responsible Direction

With the increasing adoption of AI, particularly Generative AI, there is a growing need for robust AI governance to ensure safe and responsible AI usage. This partnership between Credo AI and Slalom is set to make a significant impact, promoting a culture of responsible AI adoption and unlocking the full potential of this transformative technology.

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