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Technology strategy written for the board as much as for engineering: roadmap sequencing, build-vs-buy economics and the diligence findings that actually derail deals.
Vendor Lock-In: The Honest Cost-Benefit Nobody Runs — MNB Technology
Lock-in is treated as an unambiguous negative in most technology discourse. The honest analysis is a cost-benefit calculation most organisations never actually run.
Read article →The Technology Roadmap That Survives Contact With the Board — MNB Technology
Most technology roadmaps are built by engineering and then translated for the board afterward. The ones that survive budget season are built the other way round.
Read article →Sequencing Digital Transformation So Year One Shows Value — MNB Technology
Multi-year transformation programmes that show nothing tangible in year one lose executive sponsorship before the real benefits arrive. Sequencing fixes this.
Read article →The Operating Model Question Every Transformation Skips — MNB Technology
Technology transformations change systems. They rarely redesign the operating model around those systems, and that gap is why the benefits don't land.
Read article →Measuring Technology ROI Beyond Cost Avoidance — MNB Technology
Most technology ROI cases default to cost avoidance because it's the easiest number to produce. It is also the least complete way to measure value.
Read article →M&A Technical Due Diligence: What Actually Derails Deals — MNB Technology
Technical due diligence checklists focus on code quality. The findings that actually derail or reprice deals are usually somewhere else entirely.
Read article →The Innovation Theatre Trap: Pilots That Never Scale — MNB Technology
A steady stream of successful-looking innovation pilots that never scale into production is a specific, nameable organisational pattern, not bad luck.
Read article →Why Digital Transformation Budgets Get Cut in Year Two — MNB Technology
Transformation programmes launch with enthusiastic year-one funding and get quietly cut in year two. The pattern is predictable and largely avoidable.
Read article →Why CIOs Are Reporting to CFOs Now, and What It Changes — MNB Technology
A growing number of CIOs now report into the CFO rather than the CEO. The reporting line change reshapes what gets funded and how it gets justified.
Read article →Build vs Buy vs Partner, With Real Decision Weights — MNB Technology
Build-vs-buy is usually decided on gut feel or whichever option the loudest voice in the room prefers. A weighted framework makes the decision defensible.
Read article →The AI Investment Layoffs Boards Approved Without Modelling the Second-Order Cost — MNB Technology
Boards approve AI-linked workforce reductions against a first-order cost model. The second-order costs — knowledge loss, rehiring, reputational risk — rarely appear.
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