September 2026 · Deals & Value Creation
Technology Debt as a Valuation Discount
Acquirers no longer take "it works fine" as an answer. Technical debt now shows up in the price, and the findings that move it are visible…
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September 2026 · Deals & Value Creation
Would Your Technology Survive Due Diligence Tomorrow?
The findings that knock value off a deal are visible eighteen months before anyone opens a data room. They are ignored because, until an acquirer asks,…
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September 2026 · Security & Resilience
The Supply Chain Question Your Customers Will Ask Next
Mid-market firms are increasingly assessed on their suppliers' controls, not just their own. Most cannot answer the questionnaire they are about to be sent, and the…
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September 2026 · Security & Resilience
Remediation Speed Is the Metric That Actually Matters
Vulnerability counts are vanity. Time-to-remediate is the number that correlates with outcomes — and across the industry it is moving in the wrong direction while attackers…
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September 2026 · Regulation & Ethics
UK Data Law Changed Twice This Year. Most Mid-Caps Have Not Noticed.
The Data (Use and Access) Act made the first substantive changes to UK GDPR since it arrived. Most reduce work, one quietly widens what you may…
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September 2026 · Talent & Skills
You Cannot Outbid the Market. You Can Stop Paying to Replace People.
Mid-market businesses lose the salary war by definition. The recoverable number is not what you pay to hire, it is what you spend replacing the people…
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September 2026 · Operations & Technology
How Often You Can Safely Change Things Is a Business Number
Release frequency is treated as an engineering preference. It is the rate at which a business can respond to anything, and the gap between the best…
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September 2026 · Legacy & Modernisation
Why the ERP Replacement Ate Two Years
ERP programmes overrun so predictably that the overrun is the base case, not the risk case. Three decisions taken before implementation starts determine the outcome, and…
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September 2026 · Legacy & Modernisation
Your Legacy System Is Not the Problem. Your Dependency on It Is.
Modernisation business cases price the replacement and ignore the process debt wrapped around the old system. Which is why the average ERP programme overruns by more…
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September 2026 · Customer & Digital Experience
Process Digitisation Without Process Design Is Just Faster Mess
Automation amplifies whatever you give it. Digitising a process nobody has examined industrialises the flaws, and the sequencing that avoids it costs less than the software.
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September 2026 · Customer & Digital Experience
How Much of Your Team’s Time Goes to Work a System Should Be Doing?
Manual workarounds are invisible on the profit and loss account and enormous in aggregate. Finding and costing them is the step most automation programmes skip —…
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September 2026 · Data & Governance
When Two Reports Disagree, Somebody Has to Decide Which Is Wrong
Every mid-market business has a meeting where two numbers for the same thing appear on the same slide. The reconciliation is not a reporting problem, and…
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