Published thinking on treating technology as capital, governing for outcomes, and the decisions that determine whether strategy survives execution.
Traditional requirements capture asks people to describe a future they have never experienced, which too often produces an improved version of the current state. AI now makes it practical to build working representations early enough for leaders to interact with the future state, correct assumptions, surface missing requirements, and discover capabilities they did not know were possible. The working application becomes an executable specification of the business experience, while architecture, security, integration, and operations remain necessary production disciplines. The result is a better investment decision: leaders can see and challenge more of what they are funding before committing the larger production capital.
Full perspective coming soon.The argument behind JMA's core belief: technology spend should be judged like any other capital decision, against a thesis, a return, and governance that holds.
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Read at Glenrowe →Point-to-point integration builds technical debt and fragile operations. The case for treating integration as a business capability rather than a technical layer.
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