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Compliance: A Cinderella Story
Remember the moment in Cinderella where her tattered dress transforms into a beautiful ball gown? Compliance is experiencing a similar transformation event. Compliance used to be that necessary evil part of business. It was what you did because you had to. If you had a Compliance Manager, no one wanted to see them coming. That “ugh, not you again” feeling of always making people do something that felt more tedious than important. Companies preferred to keep compliance locked

Sarah Edwards
Apr 233 min read


Timing is Everything: Mastering Risk and Opportunity in Business
Understanding the Importance of Timing Timing is tricky. A common refrain from Wall Street is, "Being right too early, or too late, is indistinguishable from being wrong." This maxim is the daily reality for short-term traders. They must leverage sophisticated technical analysis and clever strategies while often embracing immense risk to profit from volatile price action. A moment's hesitation, when opportunity is present, can separate a significant gain from a substantial lo

Sarah Edwards
Mar 183 min read


Unlikely Heirs - The Legacy of Bell Labs
The government is the new Bell Labs. Explore how federal and state funding is seeding America's next wave of innovation and how BWIT helps you target this work to rebuild our industrial base.

Sarah Edwards
Feb 265 min read


Automating Judgement - AI's Promise and Peril in Federal Procurement
Explore the conflict between the US government's push to use AI for evaluating proposals and existing Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) that require human accountability. It advises companies to adapt by writing machine-readable proposals, questioning agencies about AI use, and leveraging debriefings to identify and protest flawed automated evaluations.

Sarah Edwards
Feb 196 min read


The Beauvais Problem: When Ambition Outpaces Your Foundation
Imagination and bleeding-edge ambition leading to catastrophic failure is more a feature than a bug in the realm of human endeavor. Built during the highly ambitious Gothic period, the Beauvais Cathedral has suffered multiple collapses throughout the centuries. The intent was to scale the height of the spires due to fierce competition with other cathedral builders of the era. These collapses are primarily due to pushing the known limits of design and less than ideal subsurfac

Sarah Edwards
Feb 133 min read
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