Which working hours will clients still pay for?
By 2035, 54 per cent of working hours in the United States could be automated. What does that mean for business models that sell services by the hour?
Information for boards and executive teams
Perspectives on AI, governance, cybersecurity and digitalisation for boards and executive teams.
AI in corporate strategy: back to the greenfield
Before the discussion turns to technology and governance, another question is worth asking: how would we build the organisation if we could start again today?
The AI-Generated Information Trap: When AI Systems Negotiate and the Human Only Mediates Between Them
When AI writes the requirements catalogue, the answer and the evaluation, the human is left with the signature. What that means for the Board of Directors.
Strategy Trendslop: When your competitor's AI proposes the same strategy
Language models recommend the same strategies across all providers. What that means for boards and executives, and which check costs nothing.
Complexity and Third Parties: The Pattern Boards Need to Break
The Liechtenstein register hack reveals five patterns that recur across many IT environments, from uneven security to uncontrolled outsourcing.
We Need to Talk: About IT Providers
IT providers recommend from their own portfolio, not from your actual requirement. Governance can manage that information asymmetry, but it cannot remove it.
The Long Letter: Why Rising Complexity Is One of the Biggest Unsolved Leadership Tasks
Complexity grows quietly and charges three bills at once: security, controllability and cost. Cutting the self-inflicted share moves all three together.
Cyber Reporting to the Board on Its Own Is Not Yet Governance
A good quarterly report tells the board what was noticed, not what happened. Boards need pre-committed decisions, not just reporting.
The Narrowed Corridor: How Harmony, Homogeneity and the Need for Consensus Can Threaten a Company's Future Readiness
Decades of selecting leaders for fit rather than friction narrowed the corridor of accepted profiles. Three more forces are narrowing it further.
Cyber Risk Starts With Us, Not With AI
A field test on open Wi-Fi shows where most cyber risk actually starts: with us, not with AI. What that means for the board.