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September 2026 Deals & Value Creation
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…
Read more: Technology Debt as a Valuation Discount
September 2026 Deals & Value Creation
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,…
Read more: Would Your Technology Survive Due Diligence Tomorrow?
September 2026 Security & Resilience
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…
Read more: The Supply Chain Question Your Customers Will Ask Next
September 2026 Security & Resilience
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…
Read more: Remediation Speed Is the Metric That Actually Matters
September 2026 Regulation & Ethics
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…
Read more: UK Data Law Changed Twice This Year. Most Mid-Caps Have Not Noticed.
September 2026 Talent & Skills
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…
Read more: You Cannot Outbid the Market. You Can Stop Paying to Replace People.
September 2026 Operations & Technology
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…
Read more: How Often You Can Safely Change Things Is a Business Number
September 2026 Legacy & Modernisation
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…
Read more: Why the ERP Replacement Ate Two Years
September 2026 Legacy & Modernisation
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…
Read more: Your Legacy System Is Not the Problem. Your Dependency on It Is.
September 2026 Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Read more: Process Digitisation Without Process Design Is Just Faster Mess