Insights library
Understand the decision behind the technology.
Explore the context, compare approaches and work through the practical questions facing your IT team.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Build an AI evaluation set that can overturn the favourite model
Create an LLM evaluation dataset from authorised tasks, explicit scoring and held-out examples. Test consequential failures before choosing a model.
IT Leadership · Practical guide
The technology is live. Which promised benefits have actually arrived?
Run a benefits realisation review that separates adoption, operational change and financial effect, then decides what to continue, adapt or stop.
Cybersecurity · Practical guide
A secure release checklist needs an exception decision, not another green tick
Tie secure release checks to the deployed artefact, verified provenance and explicit exceptions. Keep missing tests and rollback limits visible.
Data & AI · Practical guide
An API inventory should tell you whether the old version can be retired
Build an API inventory from deployment, gateway and traffic evidence. Confirm owners and consumers so an obsolete version can be retired without breaking service.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Practical guide
Shared cloud cost allocation: explain the charge before changing behaviour
Allocate shared cloud costs with a reconciled example. Distinguish measured usage, agreed overhead and unknown ownership before calling a smaller team bill a saving.
Data & AI · Decision guide
Build, buy or extend AI: choose the work your team should own
Compare building, buying and extending AI against the same business task. Expose the integration, evaluation and support work each option leaves with your team.
IT Leadership · Analysis
Vendor lock-in: decide what is worth keeping before renewal
Assess vendor lock-in through the value of staying and the work of leaving. Test workflow portability, switching costs and timing before renewal narrows the choice.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
SAST, DAST and SCA: buy coverage your delivery teams can use
Compare SAST, DAST and SCA by coverage, access and remediation work. Test real delivery paths before treating scanner findings as a release decision.
IT Operations · Practical guide
Reduce alert noise without hiding the next incident
Cut duplicate and unactionable pages while preserving incident coverage. Separate grouping, inhibition and trigger changes, then check what the pager misses.
