---
id: "action-form-joint-governance"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ What Separates Leaders from Laggards"]
tags: ["governance", "organizational-design"]
related: ["concept-digital-labor-governance", "contrarian-agents-are-not-software"]
action: "Establish a joint governance committee of Business, HR, and IT for AI agents."
outcome: "Ensures agents are managed as operational contributors aligned with business goals, not just software."
speakers: ["Jen Stave", "Ryan Kurt", "John Winsor"]
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-27-teach-ai-your-decisions"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/teach-your-ai-how-you-make-decisions"
sourceTitle: "Teach Your AI How You Make Decisions"
---
# Form joint governance for digital labor

**Action:** Establish a joint governance committee of Business, HR, and IT for AI agents.

Do not leave AI agent governance solely to IT (see [[contrarian-agents-are-not-software]]). Forge a partnership between business unit leaders, HR, and IT to jointly define acceptable risk boundaries, set performance expectations, and manage the onboarding/offboarding of digital labor.

**Outcome:** Ensures agents are managed as operational contributors aligned with business goals, not just software.

Operationalizes [[concept-digital-labor-governance]] and shift #1 of [[framework-structural-shifts-judgment]]. Enrichment note: external frameworks would add risk/compliance owners to the committee — see [[cp-governance-workforce-barrier]] and [[cp-compliance-risk-frameworks]].


## Related across articles
- [[action-shift-ownership-to-lob]]
- [[action-implement-portfolio-governance]]
- [[action-remove-it-bottlenecks]]