Technology Leadership

Practical leadership guidance for executives on integrating AI, innovation, and technology governance.

Board Accountability

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

Oct 4, 2026

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3 min read

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

Eighty-eight hours of machine computation produced a claim about one of mathematics' seven hardest problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute's own rules require two years of published scrutiny before anyone may call it solved.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

Sep 13, 2026

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3 min read

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

A US court just struck an entire appellate brief from a Deutsche Bank subsidiary over AI-hallucinated citations. The firm had a policy banning exactly what happened. The court didn't care. Here's why, and what it means for a UK senior manager.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

Aug 23, 2026

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3 min read

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

The FCA's guidance on accountability for AI harm is not yet published. The senior managers who will be named under it should not wait to demonstrate they are ready for it.

Ivan Roche

Technology Leadership

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

Jul 19, 2026

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3 min read

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

This month, three institutions told boards to assign accountability. None of them said how to prove it was there before the fact.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Jul 13, 2026

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3 min read

The Correction the Correction Needed

Article 50 has two obligations. Last week’s edition tracked one accurately and missed the other entirely.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Jun 21, 2026

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4 min read

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Corporate governance was built for a world where the principals are reachable. AI systems do not pause for the summer recess.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

Jun 15, 2026

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6 min read

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

The session was not designed to discover new problems. It was designed to examine known ones in a room where the problems had names and organisations attached to them.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

May 25, 2026

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3 min read

68 Days Is Not the Problem

Why the organisations most exposed under the EU AI Act are not those that failed to govern, but those that governed without ever testing whether their architecture could produce a record

Ivan Roche

Fiduciary Liability

May 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Retrievability Test

Why Boards Should Stop Asking 'Can You Explain It?' and Start Asking 'Can You Prove It?'

Ivan Roche

Technology Leadership

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

The Correction the Correction Needed

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

68 Days Is Not the Problem

The Retrievability Test

The Roche Review

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