Use Cases

Strategy that transfers.

The Portfolio shows what happened. This section is being built to show what to do — realistic scenarios, structured responses, and the lessons that survive contact with a second organisation.

every entry, same anatomy scenario brief → constraints → structured response → what actually decided it
On the drafting table

First entries, in preparation

Realistic scenarios from transformation, governance, and emerging technology — fictionalised where confidentiality demands it, honest everywhere else. Each entry ends in something you can reuse.

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UC-001
domain
Transformation
constraint
Reversibility, contractually guaranteed
status
in preparation

The migration that had to be reversible

Designing a core-system cutover where the exit plan is written before the entry plan — and why that order changes vendor behaviour.

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UC-002
domain
AI governance
constraint
Defensible to a regulator
status
in preparation

Saying yes to AI a regulator can live with

A realistic path from “the business wants a copilot” to an approved, tiered, documented use case — without a twelve-month freeze.

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UC-003
domain
Operating model
constraint
Decision speed without lost control
status
in preparation

When the change board becomes the bottleneck

Rebuilding a CAB from a weekly meeting into a decision system — thresholds, standard changes, and what to stop reviewing entirely.

HTTP 418 · I’m a teapot 🫖 — brewing as fast as I can, but don’t ask me for coffee just yet.

The evidence is already public.

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