Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

How Automated Underwriting Revealed the Real Bottleneck in Autonomous Systems The hardest problem with autonomous systems has never been only intelligence. It’s permission. A system can produce a decision in milliseconds. The harder question, the one that actually determines whether an organization can act on that decision, is whether anyone has redesigned liability, workflow, andContinue reading “The First Permission Architecture”

Every post-mortem on a brilliant flop blames bad timing, a comforting explanation because it treats timing like weather. The vision was right, the universe just didn’t show up on schedule. Google Glass wasn’t wrong about head-mounted computing. It needed battery density, social norms, and form factor to mature at once, and Google owned none ofContinue reading “How Much of the Future Does Your Strategy Need?”

We tell corporate transformation as a story about one person. A founder sees around a corner nobody else can see, bets the company on it, and hauls a reluctant organization into the future behind them. It’s a good story. It’s also a convenient one, because it lets everyone else off the hook. If transformation onlyContinue reading “The Governance of Renewal”