Thinking.
Governance, innovation, information security, enterprise change, and related signals.
Getting value from data-wrapped products – it takes more than pretty packaging
The Data Wrapping concept was developed at MIT CISR, from research; it’s a great way to encapsulate a practice some of us are familiar with. But how to make it happen? Too often, organisations decide to follow a technology trend and then fail to account for the original context under which a process was developed. Read on, and may your data wrapping efforts bear more gifts than unpleasant surprises.
We're all InfoSec managers now
Today’s most interesting tech problems – AI & ML, for instance – happen where money, privacy, and even lives are on the line. With stakes so high, security & compliance teams are bound to show up and bring things to a screeching halt. This often pits product teams focused on delivery and charged with ‘breaking things’, on one the side, against security folks that have never written a line of code on the other. On top of this, your board is demanding results. What can you, as a leader, do...
Measuring startup risk — a model for governance
Making sense of a startup or innovation can be difficult. There are risks inherent wether you’re a VC or other investor, a ninja/rockstar or founder being asked to take equity as payment, or just someone that’s excited to work on something new. Maybe failure is part of it, but that doesn't mean you have to go down with the ship. I was recenty able to protect 50% of a six-figure investment...