Protecting the Crown Jewels: A Practical Playbook for Business Leaders

Protecting mission‑critical information requires disciplined asset classification, clear ownership and governance, targeted controls, and a security culture that makes protection part of business as usual. By Steve Durbin, Chief Executive, Information …

Large Language Models: Technology, Intelligence, and Thought

With the continuous maturity of deep learning technologies, the accumulation of big data resources, and the explosive growth of computational performance, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gradually stepped into the “new frontier&#822…

Everyone’s Right, and Everyone’s Wrong: The Viewpoint Problem in Architecture

By Paul Preiss There’s a point in almost every architecture meeting where everyone nods as if we all agree… and then proceeds to argue for an hour about completely different things. Someone shows a diagram. […]

The Collision of Stability and Innovation: Can IT Practices Bridge the Gap?

By Lisa Woodall For decades, established IT practices have given us order, reliability, and professionalisation. They stabilised operations, defined accountability, and allowed technology to scale. But the business world has not stood still. We’ve move…

Women in Architecture Spotlight – Nadzeya Stalbouskaya

By Holt Hackney Nadzeya Stalbouskaya is a Technology Architect at International Airlines Group (IAG Transform), where she designs clarity out of complexity across enterprise systems, governance, and digital transformation. Known for her advocacy on arc…

Cloud-Integrated Cyber–Physical Systems: Reliability, Performance and Power Consumption with Shared-Servers and Parallelized Services

With the rapid development of the digital economy, cloud computing services have been widely applied, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become a key application adopted by individuals, governments, and enterprises. However, the emergence of vi…