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 | Jun 10, 2026
The Signal Capital has removed more than two trillion dollars of market value from the software sector since late January, and the selling is concentrated where revenue is priced per seat. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF (IGV) is down 30 percent from its...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 9, 2026
The hardest fact for a board to absorb about its enterprise AI program is that the duty of oversight does not wait for the technology to mature. It attaches the moment the deployment becomes material to the enterprise, and by the standard Delaware courts apply, a...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 8, 2026
Eighteen months ago a board approved an AI pilot. It was a small decision, correctly made small. A pilot is an experiment, and experiments belong to management. The board did what boards do with experiments: it noted the budget, asked a sensible question or two, and...