Four capabilities: cybersecurity, operational efficiency, business continuity, and risk management, in each case, the more interesting question is not what the capability does when it's working, but what happens to organizations that haven't built it when conditions turn.

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, delivered a speech at Davos recently that included a line worth examining: "The rules-based international order is being replaced by a deals-based one." For those working in digital infrastructure and data governance, this wasn't political commentary—it was a description of a planning environment that has fundamentally changed.