Governance & Risk

The project is still on budget when the infrastructure lead tells the steering committee that the upgrade it depends on is not in this year's plan. The sponsor thought the shared service had it covered, and the shared service thought the project would pay. Both teams have been reporting accurately against budgets that do not cover the same scope. PJM, the largest U.S. grid operator, is dealing with a much larger cost-allocation dispute. It was supposed to begin buying backsto

WestJet says it has seen no in-service events from the software issue the FAA flagged on the 737 MAX. The same issue is holding up certification of the MAX 10, which had been widely expected in October. ✈️ The software comes from GE Aerospace and affects automated flight guidance during a go-around, when pilots abandon a landing and climb away to try again. The FAA plans a review board to assess the safety risk. Asked how long a fix might take, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford

On Monday, Metro's Russian business said it was operating as normal and meeting its obligations to shoppers. The same day, its German parent said it had lost operational control. Both statements can be true. A presidential decree placed Metro's Russian assets under temporary management by a company registered three weeks earlier and owned by the head of its Russian business. The 91 wholesale stores can keep serving customers while the parent no longer controls them. From the

The person accountable for an AI agent may not be able to stop it themselves, and by the time the vendor suspends it, the work may already be with another agent. The original agent may also have started a transaction that stopping it will not reverse, so the payment could already be out the door or the records already shared. A policy saying a human can intervene is not much of a control if nobody can show that person can stop the agent while it is still running. Naming an ow

For a Canadian company, that is not just over two weeks of waiting. It is just over two weeks to find out which business cases quietly assumed U.S. inputs would keep costing what they cost yesterday. Ottawa says the tariffs will be concentrated in steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Somewhere in a lot of Canadian companies, one of those is sitting inside an approved business case, and the number behind it was written before Frida

How does Elon Musk's Terafab relate to Henry Ford's production? In 1913 at Highland Park, Henry Ford and his engineers stopped building automobiles in place and started moving them past the worker instead. A chassis that had taken more than twelve hours to assemble eventually came down to roughly ninety minutes once the moving assembly line had been refined. Every business school tells that story. It is usually a story about flow and scale, and it is the Ford story people nat