Over the past decade I have written extensively about the rise of Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) and how it reshaped the structure of the digital economy. In several earlier blogs I explored what I described as the “vulnerability of SaaS” in the emerging world of Agentic AI. At the time, some readers interpreted that argument as a…

Why AI will make great consulting more valuable, not less — and why Bolgiaten’s AI Maturity Assessment is becoming an essential boardroom tool. The old consulting pyramid was built on leverage. The next generation of consulting will be built on judgment, governance, enterprise design, and the human leadership needed to turn AI from a tool…

Whenever technology evolves, cyber threats evolve alongside it. The arrival of autonomous and agentic artificial intelligence is accelerating that evolution in ways that many organisations are only beginning to understand. The real shift is not simply the automation of attacks, but the emergence of penetration at scale across multiple attack surfaces. In practical terms, this…

Why the Real Economic Impact of AI Is Harder to Measure Than You Think. Over the past year I have had many conversations with executives, board members, and investors about Agentic AI and the profound changes it promises to bring to organisations. The tone of these discussions is usually enthusiastic, and understandably so. We are told that…

The question is no longer whether AI can generate code. It clearly can. The real question is whether “vibe coded” products can be trusted, governed and secured well enough to be taken seriously inside an enterprise. Over the past year, tools such as Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and others have dramatically lowered the barrier to software…

Over the past few months, I have been asked the same provocative question again and again: “Will Agentic AI be the nail in the coffin for SaaS?” It’s a good question. But I think it’s the wrong one. The real question is this: Will Agentic AI expose which SaaS companies actually own real value —…

Corporate boards exist at the heart of modern governance. They sit between ownership and management, responsible for ensuring that organisations are directed and controlled in ways that create long-term value while protecting the interests of stakeholders. The board’s responsibilities include oversight of strategy, monitoring performance and risk, and ensuring accountability to shareholders, regulators and society…

Alternate title:  From Tools to Teammates: AI’s Creative Upside — and the Rights Reckoning We Can’t Avoid I’ve spent much of my professional life watching industries change when a new “general‑purpose” technology arrives. Telecoms did it with digitisation and the smartphone. Media did it with streaming. Now the creative industries are doing it with generative…

I have spent much of my professional life at the intersection of creativity, technology, and commercial reality. Games sit precisely at that crossroads. They are cultural artefacts, technical achievements, and economic engines all at once. When they succeed, it is because those three forces are aligned. When they fail, it is almost always because one…