AI sovereignty has moved to a boardroom imperative faster than most organisations anticipated. Regulatory pressure, geopolitical volatility, and the rapid operationalisation of agentic AI have together made a sovereignty strategy necessary. Most organisations have one. Few have one adequate for the environment they now face. Managing AI sovereignty is a multidimensional game of chess. Most organisations are playing on one board while their exposure accumulates across five oth

Agentic AI is not just changing how work gets done. It is removing the human cognitive layer from much of the knowledge work we do today. This is cognitive disintermediation, and it may be the most significant structural shift in the history of the knowledge economy. Every major technological disruption removes a layer of human involvement from the economy. The internet eliminated or radically reduced demand for entire industries including travel agents, video rental stores,

A finance team recently opened an invoice and found a number they couldn’t explain. One widely circulated account described a company that rolled out Claude AI to its workforce without usage limits and then faced an extraordinary single-month bill. This experience is becoming more widely reported. Repeatedly, companies report rapid growth of AI use, weak controls, and very little cost governance. Bill Shock Goes Mainstream Perhaps the most well-known example of bill shock tha

In March 1940, two refugee physicists working at the University of Birmingham in the UK altered the course of modern history. Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls demonstrated that an atomic bomb was not only a theoretical possibility but also an engineering challenge that could be solved. Their memorandum became the foundation of the Manhattan Project, which demonstrated that scientific discovery and industrial capability are not the same thing. For more than two centuries Europe

The contact centre market across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is entering a new phase. Advances in AI, together with the continued growth of hyperscalers and customer experience (CX) platforms, are accelerating the transition from traditional telephony-first and IVR operating models to AI-enabled platforms capable of supporting more complex customer interactions. This shift is taking place as highly regulated industries across the region strengthen AI governance, privacy an

Observability and governance as AI moves from reasoning to autonomous action More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle distinguished practical wisdom from the application of universal rules. His concept of phronesis recognised that some decisions cannot be resolved by rules alone because circumstances require judgement. Enterprises now wrestle with the same issues. LLMs give enterprises an ability to interpret ambiguity and compare alternatives. In effect, judgement is bein

Enterprises need an independent agentic AI governance layer, operating above their applications now, if they are to fully realise the value and manage the risk of autonomous agents. Organisations are scaling agentic AI faster than most governance approaches can keep up. Autonomous agents are moving rapidly from pilots to production, executing complex workflows, making decisions, and operating continuously across multiple systems. While agentic AI is proving its value, the har

By 2030, every major enterprise will need an AI governance layer that sits above its platforms rather than inside them. At Knowledge 2026 in Las Vegas, ServiceNow made an ambitious case for becoming the AI operating system of the enterprise. It also raised AI governance questions that will be asked with increasing urgency as agentic AI takes hold. In my recent piece on The End of the Road for the CISO, I argue that the CISO role is converging with a range of other functions i

Agentic AI is not just transforming cybersecurity. It is collapsing it into a broader function. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role will soon cease to exist as we know it today. The CISO occupies an unenviable and arguably untenable role. In theory it is indispensable and central to organisations but in practice, it is marginalised. I increasingly hear from boards and from CISOs themselves that the role as currently constructed, is not working. Cybersecurity is

Two elephants in the room In the cybersecurity and risk management domains, there are two elephants in the room that are receiving insufficient attention. One is the increasingly intense undermining of regulators, and the other is over-dependence on a few hyperscalers. Why regulators matter Cybersecurity, privacy, child safety, and effective market competition all depend on regulators having the power and capacity to act. Regulators play a critical role in setting guardrails

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