2026 - Page 9 of 11 - Lighting Up The Tunnel

Pre-Mortem: Twenty Million Members, No Published Error Rate

The Pre-Mortem is a weekly series on this blog. Each piece applies five questions to a major technology commitment before

There is a common assumption in business that regulation slows you down. That the organisations operating fastest are the

Somewhere in American hospital records, there is a pattern that should not exist. Diagnoses of acute posthemorrhagic anaemia, a serious

A technology programme was delivered on time. The steering committee signed it off. The system went live on schedule and

The audit opinion is the most consequential document most public companies produce. Not the annual report. Not the investor deck.

The boardroom conversation has shifted. Not to whether AI matters. That debate is over. The new question is what to

By the time a programme is declared in trouble, the failure is usually months old. The governance review that triggers

The pre-mortem on Epic Agent Factory asked who would answer when a health-system-built agent made a clinically significant error. It

Somewhere right now, a CFO is presenting a slide that frames it as: tokens or headcount. Allocate to AI infrastructure,

The technology isn’t the problem. It never was. CEOs have finally said what transformation leaders have known for years. According