{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"ADAPT Insider","title":"Safe experimentation belongs at the centre of technology leadership","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2071,"description":"Control through prohibition cannot keep pace when employees can access AI tools and build solutions themselves.\nIn this ADAPT Insider episode, Tracey Evans, Group CIO at Virtus Health, examines how technology teams can create safe environments for experimentation while maintaining clear security, regulatory and compliance guardrails.\nShe also discusses how business ownership strengthens delivery and how new interfaces can improve the experience of legacy systems.\n \nKey takeaways:\n\nSafe environments give employees room to test AI while maintaining clear controls around security, data and compliance.\nBusiness sponsors should remain involved from problem definition through to production, supported by technology teams.\nSecuring legacy systems and building modern interfaces over them can improve access to information without wholesale replacement.\n\nGuardrails give experimentation a safe path\n\nThe democratisation of AI allows employees to test tools and create solutions without waiting for a technology team to direct every decision.\nTracey’s approach at Virtus Health gives clinicians and business teams controlled environments for learning and experimentation.\nSecurity, regulatory and compliance guardrails establish clear boundaries around what teams can test.\nTechnology teams work alongside users to understand the problem before introducing a solution.\nThis positions technology leaders as educators and guardians who help employees apply new tools responsibly.\nSafe pathways allow useful ideas to develop while reducing the risk that unmanaged experimentation reaches sensitive data or production systems.\n\nBusiness ownership strengthens delivery\n\nTechnology delivers stronger outcomes when the people closest to the problem help shape the response.\nAt Virtus Health, each business problem requires a business sponsor and a team that works alongside technology throughout delivery.\nThis shifts technology away from a back-office order-taking role and connects it directly to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/t0Jtrt9eZN4kwrPnSzLt-aLKB9f-tVVg1JGt9pql9t4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODM3/NGVhYmU2ZjljNWIx/NTliY2NlMTAzZDRl/NGNmOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}