AI isn't inventing a new kind of cybersecurity. It's speeding everything up, attack and defense alike, and humans need to stay in control. That was the thesis that emerged from an after-work event held on September 22 by EFREI Bordeaux and CEFCYS Nouvelle-Aquitaine (a French association for women in cybersecurity): two talks and a panel on tomorrow's cyber talent. But the idea deserves to be pushed further. AI is no longer just one more tool in the kit. It is reshaping offens

Three lessons from conversations with strategy advisor Aditya Joshi on getting people behind a strategy, creating space for others to lead, and building the right partnerships. For much of a career, expertise is what creates value. You know your subject, you solve problems, you produce the analysis, and people come to you because you know something they do not. Moving into management, and eventually into C-suite responsibilities, requires a different shift. Your value is no l

Three perspectives from CFO Kate Akery on business partnership, perspective, and the people behind performance. Finance has always had a clear remit: manage financial performance, control risk, report the numbers. But as businesses grow more complex, more shaped by technology and more dependent on decisions taken under uncertainty, that remit is widening. The question is no longer whether Finance can produce accurate numbers. It is whether those numbers help the organisation

A few weeks ago, I joined Javier in a financial modelling and valuation programme delivered by IEB for the M&A teams at Exus Renewables. An experience I shared on LinkedIn, and one that left me with a conviction I would like to explore further here. The programme combined financial modelling fundamentals with an immersive acquisition simulation. Each team analysed renewable energy projects, built valuation models and decided which assets to acquire, and at what price. I playe

We tend to treat digital sovereignty as a matter for governments. The debate revolves around European regulation, public investment, critical infrastructure and geopolitical tension, with companies cast as bystanders who will eventually adapt to whatever framework emerges above them. That reading is misleading. Sovereignty is also decided in investment committees, at the moment an organisation selects a cloud provider, a collaboration platform, a security solution or an AI mo

For years, enterprise digital transformation revolved around a single keyword: the cloud. And with it, from the very start, an inseparable subject: security. Those who lived through those migrations remember the debates around hybrid architectures, access policies, and security by design in hosting infrastructures. It was never a secondary concern. It was already a question of control. Today, that chapter is largely behind us. Organizations have migrated their infrastructures

A reflection on what M&A failure rates might reveal about the way we think about mergers and acquisitions. There is a paradox that has increasingly caught my attention as I have been studying mergers and acquisitions. Over the past few decades, the discipline has become remarkably sophisticated. Valuation models have grown more advanced. Due diligence processes have become more comprehensive. Deal structures now allow for increasingly refined risk allocation between the parti

What if the magic of Disney studios came not only from the stories they tell, but from the way their teams collaborate to create them? When we think of Disney, we naturally picture iconic characters, captivating storytelling, and some of the most powerful animation aesthetics in the world. What is less widely known is that behind this visual magic lies a silent yet profound revolution: a radical organizational transformation driven from within the technical teams themselves.