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Welcome to Boon or Bust, a weekly podcast on the ever-changing landscape of the technological world around us, and how best to navigate it. Featuring industry insiders - Matt Boon & Peter Hind
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AI Needs Guardrails (opens the original)
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AI agents aren’t just about working faster.They’re about rethinking the whole job.If your team is only asking “how do we do this better?” you’re missing the bigger shift - ask “what should we stop doing altogether?”Drop a 💬 if your org is already experimenting with AI agents. Save this if you’re trying to build guardrails before the chaos starts.The best examples we’re seeing are simple: An EA built an agent that took 40 manual steps out of one executive’s calendar and travel admin. The real win
The Hidden AI Cost Nobody Sees Until the Bill Arrives (opens the original)
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AI Is About to Get Expensive. Are You Ready? AI is about to get expensive in a way most teams are not ready for. The smartest organizations are not starting with prompts or tools—they are starting with FinOps, because without financial discipline, AI usage can quickly turn into surprise bills, runaway spend, and bad decisions.What looks like a technology strategy problem is really a cost-control problem. As cloud moved companies from predictable CapEx to unpredictable OpEx, AI is now shifting fr
What Happened To "The Customer Is Always Right"? (opens the original)
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Customer centricity is either your biggest advantage or the thing that quietly damages your business. In this conversation, Peter and Matt explore why technology companies move toward customer lock-in, why customers become frustrated when they pay more for the same product, and how businesses can protect profitability without sacrificing trust. The discussion examines the changing relationship between technology providers and their customers, from VMware and Oracle to Microsoft Publisher and the
Why Don't People Care About Security Breaches Anymore? (opens the original)
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Cybersecurity fatigue is making consumers dangerously complacent, and the latest Origin breach shows why that should worry every business and buyer. We break down credential stuffing, digital trust, third-party risk, open banking, multifactor authentication, and why the weakest link is often outside the bank itself. #Cybersecurity #DataBreach #DigitalTrust #CredentialStuffing #CyberRisk #OnlineSecurity #InfoSec #DigitalEconomy #ThirdPartyRisk #OpenBanking #MFA #DataProtection #Privacy #CIO #Tech
What CIOs Need to Understand About Platforms in the AI Era (opens the original)
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Most organizations are arguing about the wrong thing. The real question is not whether something is a product, a platform, or a project - it is how to stop every department from building its own tech stack and start creating reusable capability across the business. Boon Or Bust breaks down the platform versus project debate in plain English, cutting through the buzzwords to show what actually matters for CIOs, IT leaders, and anyone responsible for making technology work at scale. If you have ev
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