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Three pieces that cover the decisions raised most often: whether a model belongs in a workflow, what audit design costs if deferred, and how to replace a process without breaking it.
AI Product Development
Three conditions that determine whether a workflow should use a language model, and what to build instead when they are not met.
6 min read · Updated
Cybersecurity Governance
Audit trails, access control and evidence are cheap to design in and expensive to retrofit. What to decide before the first feature is built.
7 min read · Updated
Digital Transformation
Spreadsheets encode real operational knowledge. A sequence for replacing them that keeps the knowledge and avoids a failed migration.
6 min read · Updated
The library
Every piece answers one business question and records the date it was last revised, because positions change as evidence accumulates.
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Digital Transformation · Technology Strategy
Spreadsheets encode real operational knowledge. A sequence for replacing them that keeps the knowledge and avoids a failed migration.
Answers: A core process runs on spreadsheets and every attempt to replace them has ended in parallel running.
Jordan Dias · · 6 min read · Updated
Product Management · Technology Strategy
A first version should be small enough to reach real users quickly and complete enough that their reaction means something. How to decide where that line sits.
Answers: A first release keeps growing and the launch date keeps moving.
Jordan Dias · · 5 min read · Updated
Cybersecurity Governance · Privacy & Compliance
Audit trails, access control and evidence are cheap to design in and expensive to retrofit. What to decide before the first feature is built.
Answers: A product is heading into its first enterprise security review with no audit history to show.
Jordan Dias · · 7 min read · Updated
AI Product Development · Technology Strategy
Three conditions that determine whether a workflow should use a language model, and what to build instead when they are not met.
Answers: A model-backed feature has been requested and nobody can say whether it will pay for itself.
Jordan Dias · · 6 min read · Updated
Most read
Ordered by the questions that come up repeatedly in first conversations.
AI Product Development · 6 min read
Cybersecurity Governance · 7 min read
Product Management · 5 min read
Digital Transformation · 6 min read
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Working titles for pieces already drafted from client work. Listed so the direction of the library is visible rather than implied.
AI Product Development
What evidence should exist before a model-backed feature is funded?
Technology Strategy
When does a process justify a build rather than a configured product?
Engineering Leadership
What are the signals that advice is no longer enough?
Privacy & Compliance
How do review, retention and explainability shape the architecture?
Cybersecurity Governance
Which controls have to exist before the first release?
Product Management
Where does assisted delivery actually compress the timeline?
Digital Transformation
What causes teams to return to the spreadsheet after launch?
Product Architecture
Which early decisions repeatedly determined the cost of change?
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