Your Employees Aren’t Just Using AI. They’re Quietly Redesigning Your Organisation
For the last couple of years, businesses have worried about employees using AI. Are they putting confidential information into public models? Are they using tools…
Cybersecurity Is Not a Technology Problem—It Never Was
For over two decades, organizations have invested heavily in cybersecurity—billions upon billions globally—yet the same structural weaknesses persist and breaches keep happening. This raises a…
From Certification to Trust and Resilience
Why Cybersecurity Needs to Move Beyond the Compliance Mindset For decades, certification has played an important role in cybersecurity. Whether driven by customer expectations, regulatory…
CIO Playbook: From IT Strategy to Business Outcomes — What It Really Takes
For as long as the CIO role has existed, the same fundamental challenge has persisted: how do you translate technology strategy into tangible business outcomes?…
Cloud Strategy Is Being Rewritten in Real Time — Here’s What We Learned This Week
I recently hosted a fascinating session with Chris Cowdry (Trust Systems) and James Watson‑Hall (Zadara), focused on the disruption happening across today’s cloud ecosystem —…
Hybrid Cloud, Simplified and Sovereign: Why Clarity, Control, and Trust Now Define Enterprise Cloud Strategy
As organisations accelerate toward AI‑enabled operations, modernise legacy estates, and respond to rising regulatory demands, hybrid cloud has become the backbone of digital infrastructure. Yet…
Innovation – The Operating Model, Challenges & Opportunities
Innovation doesn’t necessarily mean developing new products and technologies. Innovation to me is finding new ways to solve existing problems and known challenges resulting in…
TOGAF and Customer Master Data Management (CMDM)
The TOGAF Standards were developed by the Architecture Forum Information Architecture Work Group and approved by The Open Group and are part of an enterprise methodology and…
Time to Look at the Role of the CISO Differently
What is now required is political acumen, managerial experience, and personal gravitas, more than raw technology skills. In spite of being widely used, the role…
How I think about: Productivity
This is a second post in the How I think about… series in which I am sharing my current views on a range of topics related…
What the Data and Tech Industries Are Doing to Support Ukraine – D.A.T.A
Like people and industries across the world people in data and tech are doing everything they can to help the people of Ukraine as they…
Optimising Technology to Navigate an Unpredictable Journey – Part 1 – What is an IT Operating Model
Often, the most common question we’re asked is “What is an IT Operating Model”, so we set about creating this playbook to outline the basis…
