Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

Every major technology platform ultimately optimizes for the platform. No single platform can optimize simultaneously for every organization’s definition of acceptable risk. Cloud providers optimize for provider-wide liability, brand safety, and regulatory surface area across billions of public queries. Enterprise infrastructure must optimize for domain-specific execution, contextual compliance, and operational resilience under stress. As artificialContinue reading “Who Governs Intelligence?”

Why Successful Companies Must Build Their Next Advantage Before Their Current One Expires After Kodak’s collapse became the defining cautionary tale of corporate strategy, a comforting mandate emerged: Disrupt yourself before someone else does. This advice has created its own trail of destruction. Over the last two decades, thousands of executives have announced moonshots andContinue reading “The Architecture of Escape”

We love simple stories about corporate demise. The standard story about Kodak is comforting because it casts failure as a moral defect. A lazy monopoly, blind to the future, gets blindsided by scrappy innovators. It turns a complex institutional collapse into a neat cautionary fable about paying attention. It is also wrong in the wayContinue reading “The Prophets Who Lost”