Copilot and Governance - Governance should change behavior, not enforce rules

Governance fails when it focuses on permissions instead of incentives, optimizes for compliance metrics instead of actual outcomes, treats exceptions as failure instead of feedback.

Good governance works like good UX:

  • defaults matter more than rules
  • nudges beat mandates
  • clarity beats control

 

Copilot doesn’t create new governance problems — it reveals old ones like messy permissions, unclear ownership, content with no purpose or lifecycle.

Governance that feels like punishment is proof you’ve already failed — because the smartest systems don’t need enforcement, they make the right thing the easiest thing. Copilot turns governance from a background concern into a front‑stage experience.

The tools SoHo recommends for goveranance is Orchestry    

 

See our workshops 

Teams Remediation – Tenant Clean Up

M365 Adoption and Governance Workshop

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

If Copilot makes your governance strategy feel scary,it’s not Copilot that’s the problem
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