At the recent KLA (a.k.a. Knowledge Liberation Army) meeting in Sydney we discussed the benefits and utility of social network analysis (SNA). Apart from a moment of interest when you see the network map, what is it useful for in a business setting? My theory is that it could be useful for organisational restructures to work out the potential impacts on the non-official organisation structure. More stuff on this at: http://www.theorywatch.com/ist501/socialnet.html
The AI conversation is shifting. What began as a fascination with generative tools is rapidly evolving into something far more consequential: AI as an enterprise execution engine. The real challenge is no longer producing outputs, but delivering reliable, governed outcomes at scale.
As AI agents take real actions across your business, observability and assurance move from nice‑to‑have to non‑negotiable.
Data is no longer a static by-product; it is a flowing asset that powers automation and AI. When it is poorly governed, AI amplifies the problems - so managing data and its risks is now a strategic imperative.
Ukraine has shown that modern war is increasingly software-defined, data-dependent and commercially entangled. Salt Typhoon reveals what this means in peacetime: adversaries are mapping telecommunications, infrastructure and digital ecosystems long before a crisis begins.
