The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American paper had ever quite done before. […]
Access to each other has never been easier in an era of a constantly connected world. Yet Sheila J. Simpson, Executive Director of FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, believes that this unprecedented connectivity has introduced a more complex challenge. “We have never been more connected as we are now, yet many people have never felt more unheard,” she says. […]
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In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: into the kind of non-technical roles that, in earlier waves of enterprise software, would have waited years […]
Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline […]
Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, according to a global survey of 625 leaders published by Boston Consulting Group. The research, titled Split Decisions, polled 351 CEOs and 274 board members at companies with at least $100 million in annual revenue and found a consistent pattern: […]
Every SOX audit season, IT teams scramble to collect evidence across dozens of systems, validate user access permissions, and document change management procedures. IT General Controls (ITGCs) cover the foundation of IT operations that auditors examine: access controls, change management, IT operations, and backup and recovery. When these controls are managed through spreadsheets and screenshots, […]
For most of the history of software, planning was sacred. You had to plan before anyone touched a keyboard, because the cost of building the wrong thing could be so punishing, especially for startups, that getting it right upfront was the only rational strategy. Implementation was expensive, engineering time was scarce, and changing direction once […]
