Long-form analysis on technology ROI, AI governance, architecture, and transformation.
Security debt is different from technical debt. With technical debt, you can patch it gradually — refactor a module here, upgrade a library there. But with security debt, you can’t patch your way out of a breach. One vulnerability, one misconfig, one unpatched server, and your entire organization is at risk. The data is stark:…
Security debt is different from technical debt. With technical debt, you can patch it gradually-refactor a module here, upgrade a library there. But with security debt, you can’t patch your way out of a breach. One vulnerability, one misconfig, one unpatched server, and your entire organization is at risk. The data is stark: Veracode’s 2024…
Data fragmentation is the silent cost killer in enterprise technology. The research is clear: Gartner research puts the average annual cost of bad data at $12.9M per organisation. Most organizations don’t realize how much this costs them because the expense is spread across multiple budgets and departments-a little reconciliation here, a data tool there, some…
Every digital transformation starts with a business case. “We’ll migrate to the cloud and save £2M/year on infrastructure.” “We’ll implement AI and increase revenue by 15%.” “We’ll refactor the legacy system and improve time-to-market by 40%.” These projections are made with confidence. Board approves. Budget is allocated. Project launches. Two years later: Did we actually…
One anonymised financial-services case example cut its release cycle from 8 months to 5 weeks. Not their development cycle. Their release cycle. From the moment someone says “we want to build this feature” to the moment it’s live in production. Eight months. That’s longer than a human pregnancy. But their code only took 3 months…
Your teams are experimenting with AI everywhere, but AI is only one part of a wider technology ROI governance problem. Marketing is using ChatGPT 4 for campaign copy. Engineering is testing Claude for code reviews. Finance built an integration with an open-source LLM. Product is using GPT-4V to analyse user screenshots. HR is trialling a…
