Executive Perspectives
Judgment, leadership, and the decisions that define an organization's next chapter.
Viewpoints from senior practitioners on the decisions leaders face when the stakes, and the scrutiny, are both high.
Ideas that move organizations forward
Practical insights, executive perspectives, and research on leadership, modernization, artificial intelligence, acquisition, operational excellence, and emerging technologies.
AI & Modernization
Where artificial intelligence actually creates value, and where it doesn't.
A grounded look at applying modern technology responsibly, without chasing every new capability.
Acquisition & Program Delivery
Keeping multi-year programs aligned to the outcomes that mattered on day one.
Practical thinking on governance, acquisition strategy, and the discipline that execution requires.
Infrastructure & Resilience
Modernizing the systems the public depends on, without taking them offline.
Operational resilience and long-term performance for infrastructure that cannot afford to pause.
Healthcare & Operations
Operational and technology decisions where the margin for error is human.
Perspectives on navigating regulatory complexity and operational strain at the same time.
Supply Chain & Performance
Resilience and visibility across increasingly distributed networks.
Operational performance thinking for organizations managing distributed supply chains.
Executive Perspectives
What separates a defensible decision from a popular one.
Why the decisions that hold up under scrutiny are rarely the ones that felt easiest in the room.
AI & Modernization
Automation is not a strategy. It's a tool inside one.
Why the organizations that benefit most from automation treat it as an instrument, not an answer.
Acquisition & Program Delivery
Why most program failures are visible a year before they happen.
The early warning signs that get noticed in hindsight, and how to catch them in real time.
Infrastructure & Resilience
Resilience is a design decision, not a recovery plan.
Building systems that absorb disruption, rather than simply documenting how to recover from it.
Healthcare & Operations
Where clinical and operational priorities actually conflict.
A closer look at the tradeoffs healthcare leaders navigate that rarely make it into a board deck.
Supply Chain & Performance
Visibility is not the same as control.
Why seeing a disruption coming and being able to act on it are two different capabilities.
Executive Perspectives
The cost of consensus, and when it's worth paying.
Building agreement takes time. Sometimes that time is the right investment, and sometimes it isn't.
AI & Modernization
What a model can't tell you about your own organization.
The limits of data-driven judgment, and why local context still has to come from people.
Acquisition & Program Delivery
Governance that slows nothing down and catches everything.
Designing oversight that protects a program without becoming the reason it falls behind.
Infrastructure & Resilience
Modernizing in place, without a single planned outage.
What it actually takes to upgrade a live system that the public depends on every day.
Healthcare & Operations
Regulatory complexity is not the real bottleneck.
Why the slowest part of healthcare modernization is rarely the regulation itself.
Supply Chain & Performance
Distributed networks need distributed judgment.
Why resilience increasingly depends on decisions made close to the disruption, not far from it.