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Module 8 of 8 · 15 min
Stage 1 · Understand the map

Plan-Do-Check-Act and continual improvement

Use the PDCA cycle to explain how AI governance becomes an operating system rather than a project.

Learn

ISO management systems use a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. For an AIMS, planning covers context, leadership, risks, objectives and controls; doing covers support and operation; checking covers monitoring, internal audit and management review; acting covers corrective action and continual improvement.

The key consulting lesson is that AI governance should continue after launch. New vendors, models, uses, incidents and regulatory changes should feed back into the management system.

A static policy folder is not an effective AIMS if nobody measures performance or corrects problems.

Remember
  • •Plan governance, operate it, test it, improve it.
  • •Monitoring closes the loop.
  • •Corrective action should remove causes, not just symptoms.
Client practice

Take a recurring model-drift issue and map one action to each PDCA stage.

Evidence you should be able to produce
Objective/planOperational controlMonitoring measureCorrective action
Source basis

Training summary based on public ISO and BSI descriptions of ISO/IEC 42001. It teaches the management-system structure and practical implementation approach without reproducing the copyrighted standard text.

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