Your continuity plan is one person
Most mid-sized companies have a single point of failure with a name, a laptop and a set of passwords nobody else has. It is rarely on the risk register.
- key person risk
- documentation
- continuity
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Why the continuity plan is one person, why nobody can price the exit from their own IT, and when sovereignty is not worth what it costs.
Nobody in your company can price the exit from your own IT
Ask what leaving your current suite would cost in money, weeks and data that does not come out cleanly. The absence of an answer is itself the finding.
- lock-in
- migration
- cost
Identity is the real lock-in
Companies worry about moving their documents. The thing that actually holds them in place is the directory every other system trusts to say who you are.
- identity
- SSO
- directory
Your staff already use AI. The question is whether you know what they sent
Shadow AI is the current state in most companies, and a ban produces the same usage with worse visibility. What a workable policy looks like instead.
- shadow AI
- policy
- data protection
When sovereignty is not worth what it costs
A company selling sovereign IT should be able to say when not to buy it. Four situations where the honest recommendation is to leave things where they are.
- trade-offs
- migration
- cost