https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/ Perspectives on data, AI, cloud and technology leadership in financial services. en-gb Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/why-enterprise-ai-needs-better-governance.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/why-enterprise-ai-needs-better-governance.html Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Data & AI Enterprise AI does not fail because the models are weak. It fails because organisations deploy them faster than they can govern them. Governance is the enabler, not the brake. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/data-products-beyond-the-buzzword.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/data-products-beyond-the-buzzword.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Data & AI The label ‘data product’ has become fashionable. The idea underneath it is sound — and demanding. It asks teams to treat data with the same rigour they would any product people depend on. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/making-ai-measurable.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/making-ai-measurable.html Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Data & AI The question every board eventually asks about AI is the hardest one to answer well: what did it change? Measuring AI honestly is less about dashboards and more about deciding what counts. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/building-trust-in-enterprise-data.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/building-trust-in-enterprise-data.html Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Data & AI Trust in data is not established by a platform or a policy. It is earned slowly, through consistency, and lost quickly, through a single number that turns out to be wrong. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/technology-leadership-beyond-delivery.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/technology-leadership-beyond-delivery.html Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Technology Leadership Delivering programmes is the price of entry for a technology leader, not the job itself. The harder, less visible work is judgement: knowing what to build, what to stop, and what to defend. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/cloud-transformation-in-financial-services.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/cloud-transformation-in-financial-services.html Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Cloud & Architecture Cloud in financial services is rarely a technology problem and almost always an organisational one. The institutions that succeed treat it as a change in how they operate, not just where they run. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-human-side-of-technology-transformation.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-human-side-of-technology-transformation.html Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Technology Leadership Transformation programmes are described in terms of systems and timelines, but they succeed or fail on something harder to plan: whether people can and will work differently. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/enterprise-architecture-in-an-ai-world.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/enterprise-architecture-in-an-ai-world.html Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Cloud & Architecture AI does not make enterprise architecture obsolete. It raises the cost of not having one — because AI is only as good as the data, systems and boundaries it inherits. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-operating-model-is-the-strategy.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-operating-model-is-the-strategy.html Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Delivery & Operating Models Strategy documents describe intent. Operating models decide what actually happens. When the two disagree, the operating model wins — every time. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/what-capital-markets-teams-get-wrong-about-data-platforms.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/what-capital-markets-teams-get-wrong-about-data-platforms.html Thu, 08 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Financial Services Capital markets organisations build sophisticated data platforms and then wonder why adoption lags. The gap is usually not capability. It is a platform built for engineers rather than the business it serves. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/delivery-discipline-in-uncertain-programmes.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/delivery-discipline-in-uncertain-programmes.html Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Delivery & Operating Models Uncertainty is used to excuse a lot of loose delivery. In reality, the less certain the outcome, the more disciplined the delivery has to be — just disciplined about different things. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/from-migration-to-modernisation-cloud-beyond-lift-and-shift.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/from-migration-to-modernisation-cloud-beyond-lift-and-shift.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Cloud & Architecture Lift-and-shift gets an organisation to the cloud. It rarely gets it any benefit. The value is in modernisation — and modernisation is a decision, not an inevitability. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/governing-ai-without-slowing-it-down.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/governing-ai-without-slowing-it-down.html Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Data & AI The fear that governance will smother AI is understandable and, handled badly, justified. But the choice between speed and control is a false one. The right governance is what lets teams move quickly and safely. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-case-for-boring-technology.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/the-case-for-boring-technology.html Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Technology Leadership Choosing proven, unremarkable technology is often the most sophisticated decision a leader can make. Novelty has a cost that is easy to underestimate and hard to unwind. https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/measuring-what-matters-in-transformation-programmes.html https://www.yuganshukathuria.com/perspectives/measuring-what-matters-in-transformation-programmes.html Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Delivery & Operating Models Transformation programmes are rich in metrics and poor in meaning. Measuring what matters begins with an uncomfortable question: if this succeeds, what will be different — and for whom?