by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Organizations usually arrive at this decision with the answer already chosen. A budget line exists for contract resources, or a budget line exists for professional services, and the work gets shaped to fit whichever one is available. That is understandable and it is...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 11, 2026 | Information
When we ask a client how many vendors have access to their systems or data, the first answer is usually a number between five and fifteen. The real number is almost always higher. Sometimes by a lot. That gap is the whole problem. Third party risk is not hard to...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
A client walked us through their security stack a while ago. It was genuinely impressive. Detection and response, a threat intelligence feed, a platform for correlating alerts, all of it recent and all of it costing real money. Then we asked how many administrative...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 6, 2026 | Information
There is a persistent belief among firms new to public sector work that government technology procurement is a price contest. Submit the lowest number that still permits delivery and the award follows. That belief costs bidders a great deal of money, because it is...
by Claudel Jean-Louis | Sep 3, 2026 | Information
Ask why technology projects fail and the answers arrive quickly. Scope creep. Weak requirements. Underestimated integration. A vendor who overpromised. Those are real. They are also not what we see most often. The more common failure is quieter and harder to put in a...
