I was shopping for better Wi-Fi. Consistent, powerful, light weight and portable. Foreign policy wasn’t on my checklist. A news report made me reconsider what I would actually be buying. Technology can give us greater freedom while leaving someone else with considerable authority over whether we can keep using it. As organisations build around that capability, the implications reach into hiring, customer commitments and strategy. Whose decisions would my new independence dep

Some of the most expensive strategic blind spots aren’t hidden at all. The information may already exist. The harder question is why some information changes a strategic decision while other information remains peripheral until events make it impossible to ignore.