How to govern a company that already has seven AIs inside it
Even if only 4.9% of employees use GenAI on average, seven GenAI apps can be running inside one company. Can a print shop’s process discipline stop “unauthorized re-engineering” before it becomes an incident?
When a printing plant has a “wrong plate” incident, the root cause is often boring. Someone didn’t use the latest version. A check sheet was skipped. A change history didn’t exist. The same structure is now showing up in in-house AI.
Gathered with AI. Thought through on the shop floor. Written for the future of print.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
In printing plants, you occasionally get the state where “the plate was swapped out without anyone noticing” (as an incident).
This phrasing is uncomfortably close to reality on the shop floor. Nobody knows which plate is the latest. Last time’s conditions are gone. Inspection gets skipped. And the truly scary part isn’t the customer complaint—it’s that you can’t trace the cause.…
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