When velocity, code quality, and delivery cadence become how are we doing — mission governance has been replaced with delivery governance. The Four Ms: the operating model that has to be right before anything else functions.
Concirrus launched Inspire for specialty. But the CUOs leading consolidated carriers need both paradigms. The Architectural Formula — first public disclosure. Vendors: you do not have an answer yet. I do.
$35 billion of specialty insurance acquisitions in twelve months. Every acquirer is P&C-heritage. Every target is specialty. Nobody is talking about what happens next...
I've been quiet on LinkedIn. Deliberately.
For the past several years, I've been head down — building platforms, leading transformation, proving architectures in production. Not...
I've spent my entire working life in product. Over that time I've become what I'd call a general expert. Not a specialist who went broad. A business person who specialises in...
This week, roughly $285 billion was wiped off enterprise software valuations. The trigger: AI agents that handle contract review, compliance, sales preparation, research — work...
$285 billion was wiped off enterprise software valuations in a week. Not because AI failed. Because the market finally looked behind the press releases and found bolt-on features where...
$30–40 billion invested in AI. MIT reports 95% saw zero measurable return. IBM diagnosis: “sprayed and prayed.” The 5% redesigned the architecture. Systematic AI explained.
Bolt-on vs systematic AI. Everest Group independently validated the architecture. Unrated to Leader in 12 months. The 5% had different leadership.
High-performing organisations are 3x more likely to have leaders who drive transformation personally. The discipline predates AI — and will outlast it.
Most enterprise software vendors misunderstand the London Market.
They assume specialty insurance is "commercial P&C with complexity." It isn't. It's a fundamentally different...
Twenty years in product leadership taught me to sequence four things:
Mission first. Measures second. Manpower and empowerment next. Management last.
Most organisations invert...
Every organisation has access to the same AI tools. The gap between "we have Copilot licences" and "AI is transforming how we work" isn't technology. It's methodology.
Three...