by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 21, 2026
Every operating model in a company above $500 million in revenue was built around a human approval gate, and the AI systems now running pricing, scheduling, forecasting, and customer resolution do not pass through it. The gate is still there. The policy still cites...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 12, 2026
Every quarter, a function head fills in a status color for the risk categories under her control. Cyber resilience: green. Safety documentation: green. Supply chain continuity: green. The colors roll up into a single page, and the page reaches the board looking...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 22, 2026
Every Chief Risk Officer who presents a clean quarterly risk report to a board committee this year is making an implicit claim: that the organization’s risk exposure has been measured, not merely observed. For agentic AI systems, that claim is usually false, and...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 10, 2026
ISS STOXX’s Governance QualityScore review of 3,048 Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies, published in its Mind the Governance Gap report and current as of January 2026 data, found that 481 companies, sixteen percent of the sample, disclose at least one director...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 9, 2026
Sarah Watkins had been on the board of Crestfield Financial for eleven years. She had survived three CEOs, two proxy battles, a fintech acquisition that nearly cratered the stock, and one activist campaign that taught her more about her own governance blind spots than...