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Adoption Tripled. Governance Went Backwards.
Two numbers from this year, moving in opposite directions. Regular use of AI on corporate devices went from 15% of employees to 45% in twelve months, according to…
Four Things Keep Going Wrong. They Are One Thing, Arriving in Four Stages.
Four things keep going wrong. They look like four separate problems, which is why they get separate owners — strategy to the executive committee, governance to risk, tool…
Your Supervisors Sent Messages This Summer. They Are One Instruction Set.
Between late June and mid-August, four developments landed in the Luxembourg financial sector. Not all of them were addressed to every entity — one went only to significant…
The Talent Everyone Is Fighting For Is Sitting Three Desks From HR
Organisations are paying half a million dollars for AI talent on the open market. The capability they actually need is already on their payroll — and most of…
The AI Sovereignty Risk Your Board Hasn’t Priced In
On June 12, 2026 — just two days after I spoke at the ILA Tech Governance Conference on AI governance — a US government export control directive ordered…
AI and Boards: Should You Move Fast or Think First?
What did you actually approve? This scenario is fictional. The governance gap it describes is not. There are two conversations happening in boardrooms right now. Both are legitimate.…
The Forward Deployed Engineer Is Quietly Reshaping the Consulting Model. Did You See It Coming?
A few months ago, nobody knew what a Forward Deployed Engineer was. Today, it’s the most sought-after tech role on the planet. Job postings for this profile surged…
Europe at a crossroads : silent regulatory shift in the age of AI
📌 A new regulatory mood in European Union Over the past months, the European regulatory landscape has begun to shift in ways that are subtle in form but…
Third-Party Risk Management: From Regulatory Pressure to Strategic Advantage
Third-party management is often treated as a compliance formality: signing contracts, onboarding vendors, and minimal oversight. But recent events have shifted the landscape. In 2020, the SolarWinds cyberattack…
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